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Abseits : Nachwort
(2014)
In der Einleitung wurde bereits dargelegt, dass und warum es nicht einfach ist, philosophischer und anderer Kehrseiten so habhaft zu werden, dass sie Kehrseiten bleiben. Wendet man sich einer Kehrseite zu, erscheint das vormals Abgekehrte zugewandt. Aus der verdeckten Kehrseite ist eine Ansichtsseite geworden, die ihrerseits eine neue, abgewandte Kehrseite haben wird und haben muss. Was Luhmanns Systemtheorie 'Zwei-Seiten-Form' nennt, bei der sich jede Unterscheidung aus einer markierten Innen- und einer nicht markierten Außenseite zusammensetzt, wird für den, der sich für Kehrseiten interessiert, schnell zum Dilemma
Die Frage nach der Erkenntnisleistung der Psychoanalyse wird im Kontext aktueller Debatten leicht, vielleicht allzu leicht gegen Freud und seine Nachfolger entschieden. Der fast schon stereotyp erfolgende Hinweis darauf, dass Freuds Leistung in der Entdeckung des Unbewussten lag, Lacans in der These, dass das Unbewusste wie eine Sprache strukturiert sei, reicht allein nicht aus, um diese Frage beantworten zu können. Wie im Folgenden zu zeigen sein wird, geht Lacan in seiner Rückkehr zu zugleich über Freud hinaus, indem er die wissenschaftliche Grundlage der Psychoanalyse nicht auf ein positives Wissen zurückführt, und sei es das um das Schibboleth der Psychoanalyse, den Ödipuskomplex, sondern auf eine spezifische Form des Nichtwissens, die der Psychoanalyse als einer neuen 'docta ignorantia' vorsteht. Mit dem Ausweis der Psychoanalyse als einer Lehre des Nichtwissens, der Unwissenheit und des Nicht-Wissen-Könnens vollzieht Lacan auf einer anderen Matrix als sein Vorbild jene Subversion des Wissens, die bereits Freuds Entdeckung des Unbewussten bedeutete, und damit eine Aktualisierung der Psychoanalyse zu einer - paradoxen - Grundlagenwissenschaft, die ihr noch immer eine herausragende Stellung im Feld der Geisteswissenschaften und der Verhältnisbestimmung von Natur- und Kulturwissenschaften sichert.
The children's book "Duck! Rabbit!" dramatizes the lesson that just because one is right, others don’t have to be wrong. An endless dispute is quickly settled once the quarrellers experience an aspect change or gestalt switch and thereby realize that the same picture can be seen in different ways. This simple scenario offers an intriguing model for arbitrating between conflicting positions by going back and forth between different aspects and thereby realizing that conflicting accounts can be equally valid.
The notion of ambivalence currently seems to be an invigorating figure with heuristic potential in political, social, and art theory. It refers to a plurality of possibilities, a paradoxical multiplicity, and a complex relationality. It foregrounds thinking in terms of indeterminacy and incommensurability, as well as in terms of the possible. Ambivalence has been deployed in positive ways, as offering political promise, while, at the same time, being regarded with suspicion.
In 1989 the triumphant discourse on the 'end of history' brought the death of socialism and the expansion of liberal democracy. The proclamation of the end of history could also be read literally, as the death of 'history' as a discipline with a homogenized narrative. It is in the same year that Pierra Nora wrote a groundbreaking article, which disentangled the fundamental opposition between history and memory, and at the end assumed the standpoint of memory. The article departs from the diagnosis of post-Yugoslav contemporary accounts of Yugoslav and partisan events. The critique of nationalist and Yugonostalgic discourses discloses shared assumptions that are based on the 'romantic' temporality of Nation and on history as a closed process. In the main part of the article the author works on the special, multiple temporality of partisan poetry that emerged during the WWII partisan struggle. The special temporality hinges on the productive and tensed relationship between the 'not yet existing' - the position of the new society free of foreign occupation, but also in a radically transformed society - and the contemporary struggle within war, which is also marked by the fear that the rupture of the struggle might not be remembered rightly, if at all. The memory of the present struggle remains to be the task to be realized not only for poets, but for everyone participating in the struggle. This is where the revolutionary temporality of the unfinished process comes to its fore, relating poetry to struggle, but again producing a form of poetry in the struggle.
Identity politics redux
(2014)
Pornography reappropriated by feminist and queer pornographers is being reimagined as a site of activist productions, be it through the reshaping of desire or engaging with wider discussions of representational politics. Here, K. Heintzman takes up Shine Louise Houston's feature length film, "The Wild Search", as a unique case study for addressing the relationship between debates of identity politics and queer activist practice.
In his major theoretical work on experimentation, "Towards a History of Epistemic Things" (1997), Hans-Jörg Rheinberger writes: 'If experimental systems have a life of their own, precisely what kind of life they have remains to be determined.' Rheinberger is alluding to the slogan Ian Hacking gave to the post-Kuhnian 'practical turn' in the history and epistemology of science.
This paper deals with the general topic of subjectivity and subjectivation, considered through a philosophical tradition opposed to the 'philosophies of consciousness': that is, a philosophical tradition, from Spinoza to Althusser, that rejects as a myth the supposed primacy and presocial character of subjective identity.
Aspects and abstracta
(2014)
Philosophers of perception and psychologists first studied 'multistable' or 'reversible' figures, 'Kippbilder', in the nineteenth century. The earliest description of the phenomenon of a 'sudden and involuntary change in the apparent position' of a represented object occurred in a letter written by Louis Albert Necker in Geneva to Sir David Brewster on 24 May 1832 and published six months later in the "Philosophical Magazine". The picture in question would become known as the Necker cube.