When in 1989 Francis Fukuyama launched his thesis about the “end of history,” it rhymed perfectly with another fashionable suggestion about the “end of ideology.” This paper attempts to examine what ...could be called the ideology of the end, of which both of these trendy phrases partake. It looks particularly into the predominant modality both of these so-called “ends” display whereby the end is paired with its apparent opposite: repetition or continuation of what it is supposed to end. Taking its cue from a couple of comedic examples in film and literature (Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life and Italo Svevo’s Zeno’s Conscience), this essay attempts to make some philosophical and political points that could help us orientate today when thinking about ideology and its alleged end.
THE SECOND DEATH Zupančič, Alenka
Angelaki : journal of theoretical humanities,
01/2022, Volume:
27, Issue:
1
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
As much as humanity has always been driven by the idea of conquering death, it is also haunted by the impossibility of dying completely; that is, by a possible persistence and recurrence of something ...undead and indestructible that pertains to us; not necessarily as our ally, but rather as our enemy. This paper explores this strange non-coincidence of death (and life) with itself. Following various authors (Lacan, de Sade), it develops the thesis that the difference between the "real" (empirical) and the symbolic is not sufficient to explain this irreducible surplus of life, this undeadness, which is not the same as "symbolic life." Rather, it corresponds to a surplus of life that occurs as a by-product of the symbolic, but which is not itself symbolic or covered by it. Lacanian theory differs from the so-called "linguistic turn" in that it alerts us to the following paradox: language is not reducible (back) to language. It is because of language that another, additional non-linguistic Real exists in the universe.
Ani Župančič je skoraj štiri desetletja spremljala delo svojega moža, pesnika Otona Župančiča. Spomine na njegove pripovedi iz mladosti, na Otonove vsakdanje navade, način dela, njegove službe, stike ...z založniki je zapisala, da ne bi šli z njo v pozabo. Med zapiski so tudi Opombe k III. knjigi Zbranega dela in še kaj. Dodala je nekaj opomb za naslednje knjige, »ker knjige tako počasi izhajajo in bo morda treba prej v eksil«,1 je napisala. Vedno je bila pripravljena na pogovor z raziskovalci moževe poezije in njegovega življenja. V poglavju Poizkus rekonstrukcije (Opombe k) je zapisala še nepoznano pesem Otona Župančiča, ki jo je poimenovala po prvem verzu druge kitice Sanjalo se mi je, da sem Triglav. Zanimalo me je, zakaj pesmi ni v ZD. Zato sem preverila vse razpoložljive vire: ZD, pesnikove rokopise (hrani jih NUK)2 in zapiske Ani Župančič, ki jih hranim.
This article deals with the way in which Michel Foucault first introduced the notion of 'biopolitics' through the referential frame of sexuality and psychoanalysis. It focuses on the concept that is ...utterly and conspicuously missing from Foucault's account, in
The History of Sexuality
, of the psychoanalytic take on sexuality - namely, the unconscious. It argues that this omission has important and far-reaching consequences for the (Foucauldian) concept of biopolitics as such.
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