Transversal subjects: from Montaigne to Deleuze after Derrida

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
List of Illustrations......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 11
Notes on Collaborators......Page 14
Introduction......Page 16
1 Subjective Affects: Surveying with Husserl, Shakespeare, and Derrida into the Twenty-first Century......Page 18
Key twentieth-century contributions briefly described: subjectivity and reading......Page 21
Shakespearean excursion I: why we can't get enough......Page 36
Key twentieth-century contributions briefly continued: différance and the proper name......Page 56
Shakespearean excursion II: what's in a name?......Page 68
2 The Masochistic Quest of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Deleuze and Guattari to Transversal Poetics with(out) Baudrillard......Page 100
Making sense of desire......Page 104
Becoming a body without organs......Page 111
Never enough......Page 114
Performance anxiety......Page 118
Fugitive desires (or mirror, mirror on the wall…)......Page 127
Subject matters of perspective......Page 135
3 The Cartographic Impulse: Certeau's Transversality, Foucault's Panoptic Discourse, Cusa's Empiricism, and Google's New World......Page 141
Postmodern space: Certeau and Jameson......Page 142
Foucault and panopticism......Page 144
Places, spaces, and the evolution of maps......Page 146
Panopticism, cartography, and the "utopian" city......Page 149
Transversality and anamnesis......Page 152
Perspective and the panoptic gaze......Page 156
Transversal discourse......Page 158
Replanning the WTC......Page 163
The proposals......Page 167
4 Fugitive Rehearsals: The Ferality of Kaspar Hauser, Playground Performances, and the Transversality of Children......Page 179
The emergence of Kasparspace......Page 182
What is it like to be yourself?: Kaspar as epistemic conundrum......Page 186
"The mere apparatus": Peter of Hanover and the subjective properties of language......Page 192
Futile representations: Kaspar, Kaspar, and Kaspars......Page 198
"Exuberant play": transversal potential of playground reformation......Page 199
The playground as orgy or Foucauldian theater......Page 204
Headless kings: the subjunctivity of playground songs......Page 209
The playground project: dialectical seeing and the resistance of nostalgia......Page 211
5 Civilizing Subjects, or Not: Montaigne's Guide to Modernity, Agamben's Exception, and Human Rights after Derrida......Page 220
Hunt, Rancière, Agamben on rights of man......Page 222
Agamben trails Aristotle: “natural” slavery defined as deficit of logos......Page 236
Eaten, not conquered......Page 239
Montaigne, literacy/logos, poststructuralism......Page 246
Simon Marion’s literacy/logos, “discourse of reason” and Agamben’s “decision on the humanity of the living man”......Page 252
Effects of multimedia literacy in the expanding New World......Page 260
Afterword: Subjects Matter......Page 279
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