This paper focuses on an important moment in Richir’ s elaboration of the question of method and architectonic: his confrontation with Fink’ s phenomenology and especially with Sixth Cartesian ...Meditation. Moving from Fink’ s approach to phenomenological reduction and to architectonic in the Sixth Cartesian Meditation, we will see how Richir recasts them in the Sixth Phenomenological Meditation.
The so called “hyperbolic épochè” by Richir has currently been understood from its consequences alone (“suspension of the symbolic institution”, “return to the realm of the pre-objective”, ...“suspension of intentionality itself ”). We thus miss the very specificity of its operations. Among these, the hypothesis of a Genius Malignus should be grasped as a counter-apperception which leads to a suspension of the phenomenologizing ego itself, therefore spread away from the living present and from its identity with the transcendental ego and the pre-being of the transcendental in general. Only such a counterperformativity allows the phenomenalization of a wider spectrum of phenomena that can only be analyzed by means of an architectonical reduction. 1.
The article proposes an analysis of Walter Benjamin’s writings on law, more specifically on the author’s critique of the violent dimension of law. It seeks to analyze the genesis of the concept of ...“dispossession of law” “Entsetzung des Rechts” and its use within Benjamin’s writings. The article is divided into three parts: the first part seeks to contextualize Benjamin’s critique of law in light of the Marxian conception of right. In a second moment, the notion of “Entsetzung des Rechts” is analyzed, as well as its possible interpretations based on the semantic scope inscribed in the term and in the German language. Finally, the paper will seek to clarify the notion of Entsetzung des Rechts in relation to other concepts and texts of the author.
Why can we not fix the “moment” of the sublime as an (archi-)event? This question inspired by an affirmation of Marc Richir provides a point of departure for the present study on the archeology of ...the phenomenological subject according to two contemporary phenomenologists, Marc Richir and Renaud Barbaras. Thus, the paper deals with the most archaic layers of the subjectivity thematized under Barbaras’ notion of archi-event and Richir’ s notion of “moment” of the sublime. After their confrontation in the light of the “phenomenon” they both intend to describe, it comes to the conclusion that Richir’ s criticism of the notion of event is justified and may even be extended in such a way that it affects the notion of archi-event.
This article is dedicated to Richir’ s basic understanding of the phenomenon and the phenomenalisation. It is divided into three parts. The first part deals with Richir’ s concept of the phenomenon ...in general and the reference to the concept of the “transcendental” in particular. The second part is devoted to the concept of “phenomenalisation” in the “Notes sur la phénoménalisation” (1969–70), which has remained unpublished to this day. The focus is on the decoupling of “phenomenality” and “eideticity”, the explanation of the “circle of foresight”, the “ontic-ontological circle” and the question of the relationship between “phenomenalisation” and “writing”. The third part is interested in the connection between “phenomenalisation” and “architectonics” in the late Richir. In it, “architectonics” is emphasized as a specific mode of phenomenalization.
On November 9th, Donald Trump was elected as the 45th President of the United States of America. Alain Badiou, who was in the US during that time, responded to the election in a talk at the ...University of California, Los Angeles, co-sponsored by the program in Experimental Critical Theory and the Center for European and Russian Studies. The following text is a translation of the transcript of his response, originally written in English and published at the website Mariborchan and the publishing house Verso. Badiou reflects not only on the specific event of the election, but on the situation of the world today.
In the following considerations we want to demonstrate that “architectonics” in the Kantian sense, as the “zetetic principle of search”, forms an informative tool to address the dynamization of the ...transcendental, an extremely productive motif of contemporary philosophy in general, and of phenomenology in particular. Furthermore, we want to outline the extent to which Marc Richir tries to make the concept of architectonics fruitful in order to address the “phenomenality of phenomena” in its irreducible contingency, without concealing it in an archaeological foundation or teleological finalization.
The article focuses on the role played by the critique of technology in the thought of German philosopher Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979). We argue that Marcuse has developed not only an important ...criticism of modern technology but also an original theory on the new possibilities of technique, based on the concept of new sensibility, developed mainly in the books An Essay on Liberty (1969) and Counterrevolution and Revolt (1972). On the basis of this hypothesis, our essay first pays particular attention to Marcuse’s analysis of instrumental rationality, where we show that according to the author’s perspective, despite technology’s use for instinctive domination, it carries emancipatory possibilities. In the second part, we analyse the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, from Karl Marx, pointing that his proposition of a freed sensibility in human’s relation to nature deeply contributes to Marcuse’s perspective of emancipation. Finally, we analyse Marcuse’s thesis developed during the 1960’s and 1970’s, showing how the author builds the proposition of new sensibility in relation to emancipatory possibilities of imagination, arguing that his analysis leads to a new form of science and to a new approach to nature.
This essay is a commentary on the second of Marc Richir’ s five Phenomenological Investigations (Recherches phénoménologiques). This investigation is remarkable in several respects, since it is here ...that central concepts assess their architectural value in the horizon of elaborating an independent transcendental phenomenology. Even if terms such as ‘appearance’ , ‘ontological simulacrum’ or ‘infinite periphery’ are older, it is only in this text that their relationship is specified, in a way that remains pathbreaking for later reworkings or refoundations of phenomenological method and architectonics. In particular, the transcendental reduction of the ontological to appearance, as well as the self-evolvement of appearance, which can be interpreted therein due to its self-reflexivity, are fundamental figures in Richir’ s thinking.
The anti-relativist architectonic of Marc Richir allows us to rethink the foundations of psychiatry, more particularly the phenomenological psychiatry of A. Tatossian and the non-relativistic ...ethno-psychiatry of G. Devereux in their respective articulation with psychoanalysis. Instead of seeing the unconscious of psychoanalysis as universal, Richir sees it as the symbolic unconscious of our culture based first of all on the symbolic institution of philosophy. Marc Richir is thus situated in an anti-relativist perspective, which nevertheless takes into account the relativity of cultures. While a relativist says that psychic pathology is defined by reference to the sociocultural norm in every society, Marc Richir would say that it is defined in relation to a non-realization of certain psychic processes on a transcendental level that is a common fund to all humanity, a phenomenological basis which by architectonic transposition will give rise to various symbolic institutions. There is no human without a phenomenological anchorage, but no human either without a symbolic institution and every symbolic institution, in the sense of culture and even of civilization, generates a symbolic unconscious of its own.
