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