{"id":9645,"date":"2012-11-02T10:09:42","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T15:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=9645"},"modified":"2012-11-02T10:09:42","modified_gmt":"2012-11-02T15:09:42","slug":"todestrieb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2012\/11\/02\/todestrieb\/","title":{"rendered":"todestrieb"},"content":{"rendered":"

Johnston, Adrian. Badiou, Zizek, and Political Transformations: The Cadence of Change<\/em>. Northwestern University Press, 2009.<\/p>\n

Contra Lacan, the sole dimension of one`s being to be sacrificed in a properly political gesture is the axis of individuality qua selfish, mortal animality;<\/span> through this gesture, Badiou claims, an immortalization-effect transpires in which one thereby becomes a fragmentary moment of eternal justice for all, in which one fully lives.\u00a0 (In Logiques des mondes<\/em>, Badiou defines true life as more than mere existence as a non-subjectifed person embedded within the statist transcendental regime of a truthless world; \u017d is quite sympathetic to this Badiouian definition of what it is to live.) \u00a0Rather than destroying one`s subjectivity, passing through the act (in this case, through answering the call of a political event) makes one into a more-than-finite, more-than-mortal subject<\/span>. 156-157<\/p>\n

Todestrieb<\/span>, instead of designating something thoroughly bound up with the human animal`s physical finitude, is a psychoanalytic term referring to certain immortal, \u201cmetaphysical\u201d facets of psychical being operating with a supreme, serene disregard for the finite, mortal animality of the human individual`s weak flesh. This death drive is a sort of \u201cvanishing mediator,\u201d… Todestrieb<\/span> … is a name for subjectivity qua the void of a radical negativity irreducible to any and every form of positive inscription or representation, \u017d insists on distinguishing between \u201csubject\u201d (as this negative X) and \u201csubjectification\u201d <\/span>(in this case, Badiou\u2019s subject-of-the-event as a positivized incarnation of an event-driven truth-trajectory \u2014 with \u017d alleging this to be a secondary crystallization, at the level of inscriptions and representations, of the subject-as-void) serving as a precondition for the positive instantiations of event-revealed truths embodied and enacted by subjects-of-events (i.e., those \u201csubjectified\u201d by the interpellation of events).\u00a0 156-157<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Johnston, Adrian. Badiou, Zizek, and Political Transformations: The Cadence of Change. Northwestern University Press, 2009. Contra Lacan, the sole dimension of one`s being to be sacrificed in a properly political gesture is the axis of individuality qua selfish, mortal animality; through this gesture, Badiou claims, an immortalization-effect transpires in which one thereby becomes a fragmentary … Continue reading “todestrieb”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125,142,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drive","category-nightworld","category-zizek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9645"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9672,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9645\/revisions\/9672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}