Pure Immanence and the Algorithmic Era:

2019 ◽  
pp. 255-260
Author(s):  
Emilia Marra
Keyword(s):  
Pure Immanence

Immanence and Micropolitics

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Gilliam
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Political ◽  
Industrial Capitalism ◽  
Conceptual Necessity ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
Pure Immanence ◽  
Alternative Understanding

Christian Gilliam argues that a philosophy of ‘pure’ immanence is integral to the development of an alternative understanding of ‘the political’; one that re-orients our understanding of the self toward the concept of an unconscious or ‘micropolitical’ life of desire. He argues that here, in this ‘life’, is where the power relations integral to the continuation of post-industrial capitalism are most present and most at stake. Through proving its philosophical context, lineage and political import, Gilliam ultimately justifies the conceptual necessity of immanence in understanding politics and resistance, thereby challenging the claim that ontologies of ‘pure’ immanence are either apolitical or politically incoherent.

Merleau-Ponty and the Fold of the Flesh

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Gilliam
Keyword(s):  
Perceptual Consciousness ◽  
Working Through ◽  
Modern Thought ◽  
Actual Field ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Conceptual Language ◽  
Pure Immanence ◽  
The Way

The second chapter turns to Merleau-Ponty to see how, working through a number of issues with Sartre, phenomenology, and modern thought more generally, he deepens Sartre’s engagement with immanence and elaboration of the subject-body and perceptual consciousness as the condition of meaning, negativity, and action. Through tracing this development, the chapter elucidates the way in which it sets basis for Merleau-Ponty’s later work. In moving away from the subject-body or an exploration of the phenomenal body to a more direct ontological enquiry into the appearing of the visible-tactile (the actual) field itself, the later works develop an anti-humanist ontology that locates perceiving bodies within a meaning-generating flesh, where the reversibility of Being as ‘flesh’ establishes a generativity which is always immanent to it and as such beyond any notion of a metaphysical transcendent Outside or transcendent Other. It is here that the Outside/Other is first construed as a disjunctive fold of immanence itself. Critically, through this, Merleau-Ponty provides a conceptual language that avoids the theoretical snares of the traditional dualist language evoked by Sartre, and lays much of the groundwork for the ‘pure’ immanence of Foucault and Deleuze.

From Immanence to Micropolitics

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Gilliam
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Dialectical Materialism ◽  
The Political ◽  
Industrial Capitalism ◽  
Ground Resistance ◽  
Centre Of Gravity ◽  
Political Analysis ◽  
Political Praxis ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
Pure Immanence

Taken together, the four thinkers of ‘pure’ immanence offer a new take on ethicality, political analysis and political practice; moving the centre of gravity of analysis and action away from the political traid, toward a subjectivity-without-a-subject, one where we no longer look for a transcendent Outside or rupture in/of immanence to ground resistance in spite of our condition (i.e. dialectical excess), but rather work through our condition and its entangled lines of immanence and ‘three’ folds of disjuncture, through an affirmative ethics of self-experimentation. When read within a contemporary setting and so within the context of post-industrial capitalism, it offers a unique critique of it, bested in its refreshing radicality only by its accompanying a-systematic (as opposed to anti-system, i.e. dialectical materialism) political praxis. A praxis that, very much in the vein of Gramsci’s ‘passive revolution’, urges us to work throughcapitalism, in order to truly overcome it strictures and all that relates to it. What some might view as a self-indulgent Renaissance bourgeois concern of playing with one’s sense of self outside of politics, is in fact actually the site where the political is most at stake. Politics begins here.

scholarly journals ROSENZWEIG, SCHELLING ET L’HISTOIRE: QUELQUES APERÇUS

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 4
Author(s):  
Gérard Bensussan
Keyword(s):  
Pure Immanence

Le rapport Rosenzweig / Schelling est le plus souvent, et à bon droit, étudié à partir de l’influence des Âges du monde sur l’écriture de l’Etoile de la rédemption. Le présent texte suggère une autre voie,  non exclusive de la première, constituée autour de la dette rosenzweigienne contractée à l’endroit de la pensée schellingienne de l’historicité. Cette étude retrace les contenus et les attendus de cette dette sous quatre registres : 1. L’histoire, chez Schelling, est soumise à sa disposition  comme articulation de temporalités sédimentées et coexistantes ; 2. Une véritable pensée de l’histoire peut être ainsi déterminée, très différente d’une « philosophie de l’histoire » : elle accueille l’histoire comme ce par quoi se fait connaître à l’expérience un imprépensable ; 3. Cette histoire « expériencielle » se surprend sans cesse en effectuant l’événement de ce qui ne cesse d’advenir dans sa Wirklichkeit ; 4. L’acte fondatif et inaugural de l’histoire est un mouvement que les hommes ne peuvent reconnaître comme quelque chose qu’ils auraient accompli. L’histoire avance, mais sans voir. Elle s’avance sans se voir selon un « progrès anti-historique ». Le parcours de Rosenzweig refait à sa façon ce chemin. Il va d’une conception néo-hégélienne de l’histoire universelle à l’idée d’une histoire discontinue, et même d’une méta- ou d’une extrahistoricité, c’est-à-dire d’une d’extériorité à l’histoire sans laquelle celle-ci s’aplatirait dans sa pure immanence et ne se laisserait pas penser dans sa concrétude opaque et chaotique.

Theology, Evolution, and the Figural Imagination: Teilhard de Chardin and His Theological Critics

2019 ◽  
Vol 84 (3) ◽  
pp. 287-304
Author(s):  
Ian Curran
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary History ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Jacques Maritain ◽  
Early Essay ◽  
In Christ ◽  
Naturalistic Account ◽  
Pure Immanence ◽  
Etienne Gilson

Teilhard de Chardin has been criticized by both Roman Catholic (Etienne Gilson, Jacques Maritain, and Dietrich von Hildebrand) and Protestant (David Lane and Jurgen Moltmann) theologians for allegedly promulgating a heterodox, modernist version of Gnosticism that substitutes a naturalistic account of evolution for the supernatural Christian story of redemption in Christ, departs from scriptural and classical theological norms, gives primacy to scientific over theological reasoning, and articulates a vision of pure immanence. Teilhard’s theological integration of salvation and evolution in The Human Phenomenon and other works is, however, grounded in an implicitly figural interpretation of history that is both scriptural and classical in inspiration. Reading Teilhard’s early essay, ‘Cosmic Life,’ through the studies of Erich Auerbach, Leonard Goppelt, and Tibor Fabiny on figural interpretation demonstrates that Teilhard describes evolutionary history as a typological anticipation for the coming Christ, thus refuting misconstruals of his theology as gnostic, heterodox, naturalistic, and immanentalist.

Potentiality as a Life: Deleuze, Agamben, Beckett

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 628-637 ◽  
Author(s):  
Audronė Žukauskaitė
Keyword(s):  
Meaning Of Life ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Pure Immanence

In Essays Critical and Clinical, Deleuze argues that Beckettian characters usually strive towards becoming imperceptible. This statement immediately poses another question: what is becoming imperceptible and where does it lead? How can we rid ourselves of ourselves? Paradoxically enough, Deleuze states that becoming imperceptible is life. The literal and self-evident meaning of life seems somehow incompatible with the image of dissolving and decaying characters in Beckett's works. Contrary to this self-evidence, the notion of life in Deleuze and Beckett should be interpreted as pure potentiality which opens both the potential to be (or do) and the potential not to be (or do). Beckettian characters together with other figures, such as Bartleby, let us think of a life in its potential not to be. The life of the individual gives way to impersonal and singular life: a life of pure immanence. Such a life can be immanent to a man who no longer has a name, though he can be mistaken for no other: the Beckettian Unnamable.

Pure Immanence

2002 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 394-396
Author(s):  
Daniel W. Smith ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Pure Immanence

Pure immanence: essays on a life

2002 ◽  
Vol 39 (07) ◽  
pp. 39-3905-39-3905
Keyword(s):  
Pure Immanence
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