Author(s): Christian Gilliam
Series: Taking on the Political
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Year: 2017
Immanence and Micropolitics
Copyright
Contents
Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction
Ontology and Desire in Contemporary Thought
Chapter Outlines
1. Sartre and the Instigation of Immanence
The First Stage: Phenomenology and the Transcendental Ego
The Second Stage: the Body and Lived Experience
The Third Stage: the Critique and Sartre’s Micropolitics
Existential Ethics and Immanent Freedom
Conceptual Limits
2. Merleau-Ponty and the Fold of the Flesh
The Crisis of Modern Thought
Phenomenology Reconsidered via the Body
Existential Ethics and Authenticity Revisited
Merleau-Ponty’s Self-Criticism and Immanent Critique
Folded Flesh as n-dimensional Depth
Tender is the Flesh
3. Foucault and the Force of Power-Knowledge
The Order of Things and Foucault’s Relation to Phenomenology
Archaeology and the Logic of Dispersion as Fold
From Archaeology to Genealogy
Power as Force Relation, Knowledge as Segment
Double-Conditioning
The Subject and Ethics
From Pleasure to Desire
4. Deleuze and the Micropolitics of Desire
Transcendental Empiricism
The Will to Power as Disjunctive Fold
The Double-Axiom of Thought and Immanent Ethics
Desiring-Production (Micropolitical
Social Production (Macropolitical
How to Become a Body without Organs/What Can a Body Do
Conclusion: From Immanence to Micropolitics
The Three Disjunctions of Micropolitics
The Three Disjunctions of Resistance
A Dangerous Opportunity
Bibliography
Index
