TY - JOUR

T1 - Scenes of Indifference

T2 - The Addressee of the Adventure

AU - Lagaay, Alice

AU - Rauch, Malte Fabian

PY - 2020

Y1 - 2020

N2 - The article, born of a dialogue between two thinkers of negativity and the neuter, elaborates Agamben’s philosophy of indifference through a series of (dis)connected scenes orthematic ep-isodes. These scenes do not so much describe as perform indifference, insofar as they pursue the same themes through in-different variations. In seeking to critically articulate Agamben’s ‘ar-cheaology of the subject’ by assessing the manner in which Agamben’s thought picks up and differs from Foucault and Heidegger as well as the lesser known Salomo Friedlaender/Mynona, the text evokes a range of avenues into deactivation, inoperativity, indifference, and the event. The deliberately performativeapproach both addresses and seeks to embody the spirit of adven-ture at work in Agamben’s thinking by exploring a plane and practice of thought “below” or beyond surface assumptions of identity and position –where ways of being, forms of life, and modes of thinking and writing attune, and are acquiesced to, as necessarily open and plural. The essay seeks to show how Agamben’s attempts to render inoperative the metaphysical determina-tions of the human as subject are keyed to a specific form of address, an address that can be understood as a response to Jean-Luc Nancy’s question “who comes after the subject”?

AB - The article, born of a dialogue between two thinkers of negativity and the neuter, elaborates Agamben’s philosophy of indifference through a series of (dis)connected scenes orthematic ep-isodes. These scenes do not so much describe as perform indifference, insofar as they pursue the same themes through in-different variations. In seeking to critically articulate Agamben’s ‘ar-cheaology of the subject’ by assessing the manner in which Agamben’s thought picks up and differs from Foucault and Heidegger as well as the lesser known Salomo Friedlaender/Mynona, the text evokes a range of avenues into deactivation, inoperativity, indifference, and the event. The deliberately performativeapproach both addresses and seeks to embody the spirit of adven-ture at work in Agamben’s thinking by exploring a plane and practice of thought “below” or beyond surface assumptions of identity and position –where ways of being, forms of life, and modes of thinking and writing attune, and are acquiesced to, as necessarily open and plural. The essay seeks to show how Agamben’s attempts to render inoperative the metaphysical determina-tions of the human as subject are keyed to a specific form of address, an address that can be understood as a response to Jean-Luc Nancy’s question “who comes after the subject”?

KW - Science of art

KW - Active/Passive

KW - Aestherics of Existence

KW - Subjectivity

KW - Anthropogenesis

KW - Creative Indifference

KW - Deactivation

KW - Inoperativity

KW - Event

KW - Form of Life

KW - Freedom

KW - Ways of Being

KW - Cultural studies

U2 - 10.13137/1825-5167/31259

DO - 10.13137/1825-5167/31259

M3 - Journal articles

VL - 22

SP - 87

EP - 108

JO - Ethics and Politics

JF - Ethics and Politics

SN - 1825-5167

IS - 3

ER -