Media Figure

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Part 1. Trumping the Personality of Power
4. The “F”-Word 1
5. This Book 3
6. The Decline and Rise of the Personality of Power 5
7. Who Decides? 10
8. Collective Individuation 12
9. Beyond the Interpersonal 14
10. Accidents of Persons 15
11. Media Figure, Distributed Event 18
12. Along Comes Trump 19
13. Miraculation 23
14. Are You an Act? 27
15. The Reign of the Self-Knockoff 30
16. Ornamental Masculinity 32
17. Affective Adjunction 37
18. License 38
19. Man-Standard, Standard Man 41
20. Becoming-Away from Man 46
21. Freedom 48
22. Deciding in the Exception 50
23. Fringe Fluidity 54
24. Rallying Affect 57
25. Conditions for War 60
26. Free Indirect Discourse 61
27. The Expansive Collapse of the First Person 63
28. The Storm of Unknowing 67
29. Trump Machine 70
30. Part 2. Multiple Persons in Joint Possession
31. Personhood Revisited 74
32. The Piety of the Personal 75
33. An Individual Is a Wave 78
34. Character 81
35. Society All the Way Up (and Down) 84
36. Common Likeness, Reconsidered 85
37. A Person Is a General Idea 86
38. Index and Event 87
39. Word and Event 88
40. Genetic Element, Abductive Impingement 88
41. Machinic Synthesis 90
42. Spanning the General 90
43. Levels 92
44. Collective Singular 93
45. An Idea Is a Little Person 94
46. Class-Naming the Collective Singular 94
47. Corporate Persons 95
48. Multiple Persons in Joint Possession 97
49. My Non-I 98
50. Strange Intruders 101
51. Thought the Thinker 102
52. Commind 103
53. Recap 106
54. Why? 110
55. Part 3. The Full Body and I
56. The Full Body Retooled 111
57. Figuring the Full Body 113
58. Schizzing the Structure of Society 114
59. Point-Sign 117
60. Umbral Union 119
61. Body Matter 122
62. Individual and Person 124
63. Micrologic and Amplification 126
64. Individualization 127
65. Scale and Dimension 130
66. Dividuation 131
67. Overcoding 132
68. Figural, Figurative, Figure 133
69. Affect and Intensities 134
70. Emotion 137
71. Signed, Affect 139
72. Resonating Chamber 141
73. Adjunction/Induction 141
74. Differential Attunement 142
75. Media Figure 143
76. The Man-Standard Again (and Again) 143
77. The Personification of Capital 144
78. Recap 145
79. Why? 146
80. Part 4. Error Incarnate
81. The Personification of Capital, Reflux 148
82. Error Incarnate 161
83. The Literal 165
84. Optive Matter 168
85. Perspective 170
86. Recap 173
87. Why? 174
88. Part. 5 The Regime of Reaction
89. Passion and Reaction 175
90. Adequate Ideas 178
91. From the Singular to the Singular-Universal 182
92. Uses and Abuses of the General 185
93. The Sting of the Normal 191
94. The Politics of Logic 192
95. The Logico-Politics of Resemblance 194
96. Signs Behaving Badly 197
97. The Understory: The Belief from Below 199
98. Conspiracy Brewing 203
99. Desire 204
100. Generalization upon Generalization, Belief upon Belief 205
101. Vague Presences 206
102. Association Unbound 209
103. Note on the Imagination 212
104. Belief Trumps Intent 214
105. Modes of Capture 216
106. Accidents of Persons Predisposed 219
107. The Pathic Is the Pivot 222
108. Faciality 225
109. Ressentiment 231
110. Fascisizing Tendencies 235
111. Micro-fascisms 239
112. A Turning Point? 242
113. Fascism Proper 245
114. Diagnosing 249
115. Ur-Fascism and the Question of Typology 252
116. The Economization of Hate 260
117. Stupidity 265
118. Flash Agents 269
119. Relay Agents 271
120. Belief in the Event 273
121. Postscript. Distinctions of Distinction: For a Logic of Mutual Inclusion
122. Identity 274
123. Distinctions of Distinction 277
124. Modal Distinction 278
125. Real Distinction 282
126. Umbral Union 286
127. Mutual Inclusion 291
128. Modal Metaphysics 292
129. Formal Distinction 294
130. Duality without Dualism 296
131. Strategic Abstract Generalism 297
132. Bibliography 301
133. Index 317