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(Presentation manuscript) [Duquesne Comments] [CWs]: Ableist language, mention of the Holocaust/Nazism [Freedom for Palestine and all those struggling against Empire.] In 2014, a very small memorial opened in Berlin at Tiergartenstrasse 4, it was a simple blue glass pane. Parallel to the pane was a series of statistics about forced euthanasia of “life unworthy ofContinue reading “Death, Disability, Decision”

I. When asked where he was “situated” politically, the late philosopher, Mario Tronti, answered that he was a member of the “defeated party” in the “Benjaminian” sense of the term.[1] Today, in the imperial core, we stand defeated. I return to this comment from 2015, to this attestation of defeat, only to better understand whatContinue reading “Failing and Witnessing: Fragments on Defeat”

We are only ever permitted to experience the communal inasmuch as it emptily gestures to an articulable, exceptional, community. And this community is merely the space of a double articulation that appears and reappears. We find ourselves rendered at two registers: the flesh and the figure. The flesh, because we are always learning that theContinue reading “A Dispatch From the Norm”

Photograph by Hervé Guibert The Author Function and the Artist Machine: The tension between anonymity and ascription—perhaps for a surreptitiously good reason—remains somewhat philosophically under-examined. It is latent in those becomings and gestures marked out as “imperceptibility” and “refusal”. There have been treatises on “improper names,” “the propaganda of the deed,” and even the “unattributed”Continue reading “Neutralizing Creation”

“Reason is not just the movements and actions of rational structures, but the movements of the structures and mechanisms of power. Reason is what sets aside madness. Reason is what gives itself the right and means to set aside madness.”Michel Foucault, 1978 “Of the Foolish…” The Crito is simultaneously an account of political right andContinue reading “The Prudence of Polity: City and Sanity”

This is an essay that speaks to the to the issues posed in “Going Astray” and “Thought, Disability, and Refusal” with an explicit focus on the political framing of the assemblage of things. It is the third essay in a set of interventions on, for lack of a better word, straying. None of these thingsContinue reading “Ecologies of Control”

Capability and Errancy One of the final pieces Michel Foucault was able to complete for publication before his death was an homage to his beloved teacher, Georges Canguilhem. It was published both in a French metaphysics journal and as the introduction to the English translation of Canguilhem’s seminal text, The Normal and the Pathological. InContinue reading “Going Astray”

Risks and Boundaries There is a vital, deeply political, aberrant movement called for in Difference & Repetition that is, in a certain sense, a metaphysical revolutionary gambit. It is the destruction of the dogmatic image of thought which presupposes its own foundational principles. Attempting to apprehend thought outside of this doxa, to move away fromContinue reading “Thought, Disability, and Refusal”

We are so terribly ill. Our ailment is enervating, though we are astir. It leaves us completely constricted, but perpetually frenzied and almost always restless. We do everything and go nowhere, do nothing and go everywhere. The tissue of our bodies tenses up and loosens exactly as expected. A refined symptom, to be sure. Though,Continue reading “Writhe, Moan”