lizfair's review against another edition
on denial & repetition compulsion-- "..this attitude is an attitude of minimizing evil. If negation cannot be touched by any revelation, any proof, any presence, if it always resists the trial of fact, it is in as much as it betrays an immense confidence. A naïve, absolute confidence, a child's faith in possibility, a fragile but unconditional belief without which existence would quite simply not be possible." so true bestie
casparb's review against another edition
reread bc things are going So Well & I need to talk about trauma more for Ireland. anyway increasingly essential text. I mentioned there's a lack of Hegel on my previous read which is true for what's happening explicitly but I've absolutely come to see him as v v integral, tectonic to it. He's geothermal if you like. Just not announced
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Okay first brush with Malabou! my o my if she doesn't pack everything in this is dense, in true Derridean fashion & I note her style even resembles his - not to diminish her as an independent thinker. It's a short text but with incredible variety in chapters the first is perhaps the most punch & grief to the title this is a disturbing read & one doesn't expect things to go lightly when she's early dropping 'destruction too is formative. A smashed-up face is still a face, a stump a limb, a traumatized psyche remains a psyche'. It's certainly not for everybody but she's doing incredible work there.
Chapter two is where I got to feel very glad I just finished my reread of the Ethics as CM goes into the uses of Spinoza in contemporary neurobiology viz. The Conatus. Also incredible ? I love this reading of Spinoza though I think one would struggle in this chapter if they were a little rusty on him. Interestingly Malabou plays with Deleuze around here - she's had issues with his Kafka reading (I think a very effective critique which also is one of the best explanations of 'becoming-animal' in ATP I've ever seen? nice) - but here she works in tandem with his Spinoza book which I think is probably one of his more 'sensible'. Surprised by how little Hegel appeared in this actually seeing as that was her doctoral thesis with the lovable Derrida but she does drop him once or twice and to great effect
Proust & aging . I think most useful to emphasise 'Ontology' in the title rather than 'Accident'. Destructive plasticity a beautiful concept and one I've already annotated in elsewhere
I just really enjoyed this but my if it isn't heavy first in the morning
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Okay first brush with Malabou! my o my if she doesn't pack everything in this is dense, in true Derridean fashion & I note her style even resembles his - not to diminish her as an independent thinker. It's a short text but with incredible variety in chapters the first is perhaps the most punch & grief to the title this is a disturbing read & one doesn't expect things to go lightly when she's early dropping 'destruction too is formative. A smashed-up face is still a face, a stump a limb, a traumatized psyche remains a psyche'. It's certainly not for everybody but she's doing incredible work there.
Chapter two is where I got to feel very glad I just finished my reread of the Ethics as CM goes into the uses of Spinoza in contemporary neurobiology viz. The Conatus. Also incredible ? I love this reading of Spinoza though I think one would struggle in this chapter if they were a little rusty on him. Interestingly Malabou plays with Deleuze around here - she's had issues with his Kafka reading (I think a very effective critique which also is one of the best explanations of 'becoming-animal' in ATP I've ever seen? nice) - but here she works in tandem with his Spinoza book which I think is probably one of his more 'sensible'. Surprised by how little Hegel appeared in this actually seeing as that was her doctoral thesis with the lovable Derrida but she does drop him once or twice and to great effect
Proust & aging . I think most useful to emphasise 'Ontology' in the title rather than 'Accident'. Destructive plasticity a beautiful concept and one I've already annotated in elsewhere
I just really enjoyed this but my if it isn't heavy first in the morning
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