You Must Change Your Life: On Anthropotechnics

Contents......Page 4
Introduction: On the Anthropotechnic Turn......Page 8
The Planet of the Practising......Page 24
1. THE COMMAND FROM THE STONE: Rilke's Experience......Page 26
2.
REMOTE VIEW OF THE
ASCETIC PLANET
Nietzsche's Antiquity Project......Page 36
3.
ONLY CRIPPLES WILL SURVIVE:
Unthan's Lesson......Page 47
4.
LAST HUNGER ART:
Kafka's Artistes......Page 68
PARISIAN BUDDHISM:
Cioran's Exercises......Page 80
TRANSITION. RELIGIONS DO NOT EXIST: From Pierre de Coubertin to L. Ron Hubbard......Page 90
I.
The Conquest of the Improbable: For an Acrobatic Ethics......Page 114
PROGRAMME......Page 116
Marriage from an Evolutionary Perspective......Page 118
What Does 'Upwards' Mean? For a Critique of the
Vertical......Page 120
The Time of Artistes......Page 121
Nature Acrobatics on Mount Improbable......Page 124
Primary Conservatism and Neophilia......Page 126
Artiste Metaphysics......Page 128
Nothing More Monstrous than Man: Existence at High
Altitude......Page 130
Jacob's Dream, Or, The Hierarchy......Page 132
No Slave Revolt in Morality: Christian Athletism......Page 135
Aristocracy or Meritocracy......Page 137
Non-Dominatory Gradations......Page 138
Wittgenstein's Monastic Rule......Page 139
Culture Arises from Secession......Page 143
Form and Life......Page 145
language Games Are Exercises: The Deception of
'Ordinary language'......Page 147
What Shows Itself......Page 149
Declared Exercises......Page 151
Whereof One Should Not Be Silent......Page 152
The Ascetological Twilight and the Gay Science......Page 153
Foucault: A Wittgensteinian......Page 155
Tragic Verticality......Page 156
Language Games, Discourse Games, General Disciplinics......Page 159
Philosophical Multisport: The Subject as Carrier of Its
Exercise Sequences......Page 161
View of an Immense landscape......Page 162
Between Disciplines......Page 164
The Cure for Extravagance: Discourse Analysis......Page 167
The First Ethical Distinction in Heraclitus......Page 168
Heidegger's Cunning......Page 169
What the Dalman Brings About: The Ethical Distinction......Page 170
Being Superior to Oneself......Page 171
Between Two Overpowerings: The Possessed Human......Page 174
Paideia: Gripping the Roots of Habit......Page 176
Thinking and Wakefulness......Page 177
Thinking Without Waking, Waking Without Thinking:
East-West Contrasts......Page 179
One More Time: Height and Width - Anthropological
Proportionality......Page 182
At the Base Camp: The Last Humans......Page 183
Bourdieu, Thinker of the Last Camp......Page 185
Habitus: The Class Within Me......Page 186
Base and Physis, Or: Where Is Society?......Page 187
On the Genius of Habit: Aristotle and Thomas......Page 189
Homo Bourdivinus: The Other Last Human......Page 192
Teaching as a Profession: The Attack on the Inertias......Page 193
Identity as the Right to Laziness......Page 195
Catapults......Page 197
The Axial Age Effect: The Humanity of Two Speeds......Page 199
Getting to the Other Side: Philosophy as Athletics......Page 201
Asceticism and Acrobatics......Page 203
Anthropotechnics: Turning the Power of Repetition
Against Repetition......Page 204
Pedagogy as Applied Mechanics......Page 205
Dying Performance: Death on the Metaphysical Stage......Page 207
To What Extent It Is Right for Jesus to Say: 'It Is Finished'......Page 209
Death Athletes......Page 211
Certum Est Quia Impossibile: Only the Impossible Is
Certain......Page 212
II.
Exaggeration Procedures......Page 216
BACKDROP:
Retreats into Unusualness......Page 218
Uprooting from the First Life: Spiritual Secessionism......Page 224
The Splitting of the Entity through the Crusade Against
the Ordinary......Page 226
Spaces of Retreat for the Practising......Page 228
The Deeper Distinction: Self-Acquisition and World
Relinquishment......Page 230
Birth of the Individual from the Spirit of Recession......Page 234
The Self in the Enclave......Page 235
In the Microclimate of the Practising Life......Page 236
The Rejection of Self-Concern: Consistent Fatalism......Page 237
Solitude Techniques: Speak to Yourself!......Page 239
Endo-Rhetoric and Disgust Exercises......Page 241
The Inner Witness......Page 244
Inquisition Against the Ego......Page 246
Rehabilitating Egotism......Page 248
In the Time of Completion......Page 250
Movedness by the Goal......Page 252
Concerning the Difference Between a Wise Man and an
Apostle......Page 253
Death Exam: Wisdom Teaching as Training for the
Theatre of Cruelty......Page 255
Curriculum Vitae a Priori......Page 258
Benedict's Ladder of Humility......Page 260
Scala Paradisi: Anachoretic Psychoanalysis......Page 263
Theomimetic Radiance......Page 266
Perfectionism and Historicism......Page 267
Indian Teleology......Page 269
The Secret of the Second Secession: Karma-Darkening and Striving for Liberation......Page 271
The Slow and Fast Paths......Page 274
Cura and Cultura......Page 278
Stabilized Improbability: The Erection of Models......Page 279
Paradoxes and Passions: The Genesis of the Inner World
through Chronic Overstraining......Page 280
Twilight of the Trainers......Page 282
Ten Types of Teacher......Page 283
The Guru......Page 284
The Buddhist Master......Page 288
Intermezzo: The Critique of Illumination......Page 291
The Apostle......Page 292
The Philosopher......Page 294
The Sophist as Universally Able......Page 295
The Profane Trainer: The Man Who Wants Me to Want......Page 298
The Master Craftsman and the Two Natures of the Work
of Art......Page 299
Professors, Teachers, Writers......Page 302
The Science of Reversal......Page 305
All Education Is Conversion......Page 307
The Catastrophe Before Damascus......Page 309
There Is No Conversion: The Augustinian Paradigm......Page 312
Conversion as Change of Trainer: St Francis and Ignatius......Page 315
III.
The Exercises of the Moderns......Page 320
On the Power of the Slogan......Page 322
The New Zeitgeist: Experiment with Humans......Page 323
Modern Unrest......Page 325
Autoplastic Action: Circulus Virtuosus......Page 327
The Discovery of the World in Humans......Page 330
Homo Mirabile......Page 333
Homo Anthropologicus......Page 335
Passion Plays......Page 338
Inoculation with the Monstrous: Nietzsche as
Immunologist......Page 339
The European Training Camp......Page 341
Second History of Art: The Executioner as Virtuoso......Page 345
The Beginning of Biopolitics: Even the Classical State Had
Already Made Humans Live......Page 347
Human Overproduction and Proletarianization......Page 350
The Birth of Sodal Policy from the Problem of Human Surplus......Page 352
Emendatio Mundi......Page 353
School Interest Versus National Interest......Page 355
All the World's a School......Page 357
Pre-Enlightenment: The Way of light......Page 358
Eccentric Positionality: The Human Automaton as a
Provocation of Anthropology......Page 363
The Interdisciplinary Continent......Page 366
Art History as Asceticism History......Page 367
On Military Drill......Page 371
Human-Fitters in General......Page 373
In Praise of the Horizontal......Page 376
Progress as Half-Price Metanoia......Page 377
World Improvement as Self-Improvement......Page 379
Having-Oneself-Operated-On: The Subject in Auto-Operative
Curvature......Page 380
The Treated Self......Page 381
In the Operative Circle: Medical Calmness......Page 384
October Revolution: The Ether Anaesthetic......Page 386
On the Human Right to Unconsciousness......Page 387
Revolutionary Un-Calmness......Page 389
Radical Metanoia as the Will to Overthrow......Page 390
Political Verticalism: The New Human Being......Page 393
Communist Production of Humans......Page 395
The Biopolitics of the Miracle and the Art of the Possible......Page 398
The Era of Abolition......Page 400
Being and Time - the Soviet Version......Page 401
Immortalism: The liquidation of Finitude......Page 402
Ending the Epoch of Death and Bagatelles......Page 403
'Anthropotechnics'......Page 404
Post-Communist Postlude: Revenge of the Gradual......Page 407
Damned to Distinguish Between Repetitions......Page 411
The Creature that Cannot Practise......Page 413
The Re-Exercising of All Exercises......Page 416
The Source of Bad Habits: On the Metaphysics
of the Iron Age......Page 418
Realism, Scarcity, Alienation......Page 420
The Ascetic Suspension of Alienation: The Five Fronts......Page 422
Against Hunger......Page 423
Against Overtaxing......Page 424
Against Sexual Need......Page 425
Against Domination and Enmity......Page 426
Against the Necessity of Dying......Page 427
The Post-Metaphysical Legacy of the Metaphysical Revolt......Page 428
In Defence of the Second Silver Age......Page 430
Canon-Work in Modernity......Page 432
Malign Repetitions I: The Culture of Camps......Page 433
Malign Repetitions II: The Erosion of the
School......Page 436
Malign Repetitions III: The Self-Referential Art System Modernity......Page 440
RETROSPECTIVE:
From the Re-Embedding of the Subject
to the Relapse into Total Care......Page 443
Who Is Allowed to Say It?......Page 449
Who Can Hear It?......Page 452
Who Will Do It?......Page 454
INTRODUCTION: ON THE ANTHROPOTECHNIC TURN......Page 460
THE PLANET OF THE PRACTISING......Page 461
I. THE CONQUEST OF THE IMPROBABLE......Page 467
II. EXAGGERATION PROCEDURES......Page 473
III. THE EXERCISES OF THE MODERNS......Page 479
INDEX......Page 494