Issue #35 After the Last Man: Images and Ethics of Becoming Otherwise

After the Last Man: Images and Ethics of Becoming Otherwise

Elizabeth A. Povinelli

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Issue #35
May 2012










Notes
1

Jacques Rancière, The Politics of Aesthetics: The Distribution of the Sensible, trans. Gabriel Rockhill (London and New York: Continuum, 2004), 39.

2

See Elizabeth A. Povinelli, “Routes/Worlds,” e-flux journal 27 (September 2011), .

3

Francis Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last Man (New York: Harper Perennial, 1993), xi.

4

Ibid., xi.

5

Alexandre Kojève, An Introduction to a Reading of Hegel: Lectures on the Phenomenology of Spirit, trans. James H. Nichols (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University press, 1980).

6

Giorgio Agamben, The Open: Man and Animal, trans. Kevin Attell (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003).

7

After the Second World War, Kojève left his position at the École Pratique des Hautes Études and took up a position in the French Ministry of Economic Affairs, where he was one of the chief ideologues for the European Common Market, the bureaucratic predecessor of the European Union. See Dominique Auffret, Alexander Kojève, La Philosophie, l’état, la fin de l’Histoire (Paris: Grasset, 1993).

8

Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, trans. Adrian Del Caro (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006). Given Fukuyama’s mutual admiration of Kojève and Leo Strauss, it is important to note that these two disagreed about the inherent difference between philosophy and politics and the goal of mutual recognition. See Leo Strauss, On Tyranny(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000).

9

Lee Edelman, No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004).

10

Donald W. Winnicott, Playing and Reality (London: Routledge, 1982), 17.

11

Ibid.

12

Donald W. Winnicott, “Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena,” International Journal of Psychoanalysis 34 (1953): 89-97.

13

Playing and Reality, 19.

14

In an essay on the extimite, Jacques-Alain Miller describes the intimate as parasitical on the externality of the Other. See Jacques-Alain Miller, “Extimity,” The Symptom 9 (2008).

15

Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, trans. Brian Massumi (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987), 21.

16

Rosie Braidotti, Transpositions: On Nomadic Ethics (London: Polity Press, 2006), 150.

17

Gilles Deleuze, Foucault, trans. Sean Hand (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1988).

18

Roberto Esposito, Bios: Biopolitics and Philosophy, trans. Timothy Campbell (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008), 185.

19

Ibid., 185-6.

20

Gilles Deleuze, Pure Immanence: Essays on A Life, trans Anne Boyman (New York: Zone Books, 2001), 27.