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Book SynopsisIn Singularities at the Threshold: The Ontology of Unrest, Bruno Gullì calls into question the concept of the independent and sovereign individual of the liberal (and neoliberal) tradition from the standpoint of the ontology of singularity, that is, the plural constitution of what appears to be an individual. Singularity is not the result of a process of individuation. It is rather this very process itself. He argues that the process of individuation (whereby at each stage everything appears to be individuated as such, to be an individual thing), is in reality always already plural, a process of transindividuation, or better, trans-dividuation. Gullì further examines why singularity is usually confused with individuality; what comes after the sovereign and independent individual, after the subject; and what the role of subversive and liberated singularities is in bringing about a new ethos.
Table of ContentsContents
Introduction
Part One: Contingency
Chapter One: The Open: Ontology of Mystery and Simplicity
Chapter Two: Replacing the Individual. The Impossible Individuation
Chapter Three: Subject of Fiction: Subjection and Subjugation
Part Two: Capture
Chapter Four: Borders and Vortices (Life and Work)
Chapter Five: Politics of Disposability and Cruelty
Chapter Six: Capture and Thresholds: The Politics of Number, the Accidental Glass
Part Three: Subversions
Chapter Seven: A Passage to Art
Chapter Eight: Disaffection and Care
Chapter Nine: Relations without a subject
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