The empty side of power:
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Abstract: | "A theoretical investigation into the nature of power and how it is communicated would seem to be redundant in face of the sciences and their explanations of this phenomenon. Scientists in military organizations are in a position to count the weapons, industrial capacity, psychological readiness, intelligence, allies, etc., of global nations, and on the basis of the relative strengths of each, to offer strategies for action. Today, such calculations extend to the psychological studies of the "will" to fight against overwhelming odds. Of course, such studies depend on questions answered by fighters of diverse countries, groups, and beliefs, resulting in quantifiable "data" to be used for training purposes. Philosophy, then, would seem to lack an object of discussion. At best, it could help clarify some issues; at worst, it should be controlled from outside in the name of some presumed interests. We could recall the great debates concerning justice by classical thinkers such as Plato (1974), only to discover that, when it came to the question of power, Thrasymachus announced that all decisions of justice depend on those who have power-case closed. Thus, if philosophy is relevant, it could be of practical service in the battle for the minds of populations by constructing some ideological justification for the use of power. A specific philosophy could be designed to envelope some political expediency in an aura of truth. The obvious result of such philosophy is a terrorism of thought. Here, philosophy loses its essence-an unconcerned freedom to range and probe, and to constitute itself and its object. This does not mean that philosophy disappears; to the contrary, it enters its most aggressive and virile stage, the stage of inauthenticity and arbitrariness, and serves the "reality" interests of some dogma or world view. In brief, this form of philosophy would become a clever and sophisticated rhetorical strategy to help control the thinking of populations. In turn, this virile stage appears in its cynical form as an instrument that communicates power. This is specifically obvious in the age of science and technology, which have reduced reason to instrumental reason. Our contemporary reality is a narrowed world brought about by science and constituted by technology, with all their possibilities and dangers. The modern globalized world is formed by a growing interdependence between politics, economy, and technology. |
Umfang: | xxix, 241 Seiten 24 cm |
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Contents Introduction .vii Cosmic and Social Power. viii Prometheus. xvii The Logic of Power. xx Chapter 1 Cosmic and Social Power. 1 Life as Power. 7 Victory. 9 Chapter 2 Political Theology: For the Love of God. 23 Introduction. 23 Political Form. 26 Arbitrariness and Worship. 27 Discourses of Power. 34 Emptiness in the Political. 35 Hierophany. 36 Chapter 3 The Hidden Power: Kama/Eros.39 Introduction. 39 Revolution. 40
Passion. 42 Escape: Power to Control. 52 Sexy and Erotic Bodies. 57 Body and Passion. 62 Chapter 4 Eros and Mythos. 65 Introduction. 65 Eros and Wisdom. 71 Mythos. 78
iv Contents Chapter 5 Eros, Autopoiesis, and Transformation. 85 Introduction: Autopoietic Network of Power. 85 Operationalism as Transformation. 92 Scapegoats. 93 The Scapegoat, Evangelical Revelation, and Ressentiment. 94 Scapegoat Victims. 95 Autopoietic Magic. 96 The Word in the Beginning as Magic. 101 Emotion. 103 Chapter 6 Erotic Machinery, Desire, Perversity, and Tyranny. 105 Introduction. 105 Desire. 106 The Role of Cognition in Desire. 106 Self-Understanding in Desire. 106 The Desire for Desire. 107 Eros. 108 Love Marks. 113 It’s So Divine. 114
Seduction. 114 Perversity within the World of Seduction.116 Mirare—Mirror, Mirror on the Wall. 117 “I’ll Be Your Mirror,” Says the Authoritarian. 117 The Secret and the Challenge. 118 Perverse Eros and the Magic of Seduction.120 The Perversity of Eros and the Magic of Seduction. 123 Chapter 7 Self-Created Being.127 Introduction.127 The Old Magician. 128 Modem Ultimate Being. 132 Individual. 137 Global “Ethics”. 143 Chapter 8 Identity and Populism: Telling the Code.147 Introduction. 147 Network Magic. 153
Contents V Negri on the Power of God’s Nature. 154 Charismatic Authoritarianism.155 Bond Struggle over Common Good. 157 Chapter 9 Skin Culture.163 Self-Destruction. 163 Popular and Pop Cultures. 165 Discarding the Subject. 167 Terrorism. 180 Chapter 10 Ressentiment, Narcissism, and Trump: The Omnipotent Victim. 183 Introduction. 183 White Christian Nationalism. 184 In Brief. 185 Ressentiment in General. 186 Narcissism. 188 Trump: Ressentiment Embodied. 189 Creating Cain with YHWH. 193 “Beginnings” and Attempts to Be Godlike.193 Conclusion: Emptiness. 195
Introduction. 195 The Emptiness in the Flowing World. 196 References . 217 About the Authors. 223 Index . 225 |
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