The Subject Emerges Through Dispossession

The Parallax View

This thread follows the account of subjectivity as a void produced by self-division, not a stable inner substance.

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The Object Disturbs The Object Disturbs from "The Parallax View". The Object That Objects Reversing activity The subject’s basic gesture is portrayed as submission to what it takes to be necessary.

The Object Disturbs from "The Parallax View". The Object That Objects Reversing activity The subject’s basic gesture is portrayed as submission to what it takes to be necessary.

The Object That Objects Reversing activity The subject’s basic gesture is portrayed as submission to what it takes to be necessary. The object, by contrast, interrupts and unsettles the subject. A different account of agency What appears passive can provoke movement more powerfully than a conscious plan. The book names this disturbing object as a parallax object.

The Gaze Enters the Picture The Gaze Enters the Picture from "The Parallax View". The Observer Is Included A materialist reversal The observer cannot claim to survey all reality from outside.

The Gaze Enters the Picture from "The Parallax View". The Observer Is Included A materialist reversal The observer cannot claim to survey all reality from outside.

The Observer Is Included A materialist reversal The observer cannot claim to survey all reality from outside. The subject is inscribed in the picture as a blind spot that the picture cannot absorb. Seeing becomes reflexive The object returns the gaze through the point that escapes the observer. Materialism begins by admitting that the world seen is never a complete whole.

The Subject Is a Result The Subject Is a Result from "The Parallax View". No Self Before the Cut Dispossession first The subject is not a stable self that later loses control.

The Subject Is a Result from "The Parallax View". No Self Before the Cut Dispossession first The subject is not a stable self that later loses control.

No Self Before the Cut Dispossession first The subject is not a stable self that later loses control. It names the void that appears when substance is displaced from itself. Identity after the event A self can return only as the result of a process that produces it. This turns selfhood from a foundation into an effect of negativity.

The Inhuman Inside Humanity The Inhuman Inside Humanity from "The Parallax View". Neither Human Nor Other A third category The indefinite judgment distinguishes “inhuman” from merely “not human.” Inhumanity names an excess internal to what…

The Inhuman Inside Humanity from "The Parallax View". Neither Human Nor Other A third category The indefinite judgment distinguishes “inhuman” from merely “not human.” Inhumanity names an excess internal to what…

Neither Human Nor Other A third category The indefinite judgment distinguishes “inhuman” from merely “not human.” Inhumanity names an excess internal to what counts as human. Subjectivity’s night side The human subject contains a disturbing core that cannot be explained as animality or divinity. The book connects that excess to modern freedom and its danger.

The Empty I Speaks The Empty I Speaks from "The Parallax View". A Pronoun Produces a Subject The act of saying I The word “I” adds no substantial property to the speaker.

The Empty I Speaks from "The Parallax View". A Pronoun Produces a Subject The act of saying I The word “I” adds no substantial property to the speaker.

A Pronoun Produces a Subject The act of saying I The word “I” adds no substantial property to the speaker. Yet its self-reference posits an empty point that can take responsibility for acts. Freedom without a hidden core The subject is not a thing behind appearances. It is the formal agency that emerges through the failure of direct self-knowledge.

Chapter 1 opening

Chapter 1, early discussion of the gaze

Chapter 1, Hegel discussion

Chapter 1, discussion of Kant’s indefinite judgment

Chapter 4, late discussion of self-reference