Cesare Casarino
Biographic Data
| ID | 322970 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cesare Casarino |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cesare |
| FAMILY NAME | Casarino |
| SIGNATURE | CASARINO C |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Association of Comparative Study of World Literature |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Mourning Without End: A Start
The War on Mourning
This essay explores the relationship between the crisis of politics (both institutional and insurgent) and the work of mourning in our time, in which pandemics and wars accumulate victims, but institutional politics seems only capable of saturating losses with violence—while politics from below struggles to transform mourning into consciousness and rebellion. In dialogue with Sigmund Freud, Jacques Derrida, and Judith Butler, the author connects …
Absolute Ambivalence: On Modernity and Its Corpses
Starting from the COVID-19 pandemic—and engaging with works by Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, Jacques Lacan, Michel Foucault, Douglas Crimp, Judith Butler, and others—this essay speculates on the psychic situation of having to work through loss in the absence of the loved one’s corpse. This article also puts forth a concept of “absolute ambivalence” understood as the beyond of the mourning-melancholia dialectic and ultimately relates this concep…
Releasing the Image: From Literature to New Media
The Expression of Time (Spinoza, Deleuze, Cinema)
This essay investigates the absent presence of Baruch Spinoza’s thought in Gilles Deleuze’s Cinema 1: The Movement-Image and Cinema 2: The Time-Image and argues that the concept of expression—as articulated by Deleuze in his study on Spinoza, Expressionism in Philosophy, as well as in his Logic of Sense—constitutes the crucial condition of possibility of Deleuze’s philosophical theory of the cinema and, in particular, of his twofold understanding…
Images for Housework: On the Time of Domestic Labor in Gilles Deleuze's Philosophy of the Cinema
Restating Things, Again
In Praise of the Common: A Conversation on Philosophy and Politics
A leading Marxist political philosopher and intellectual firebrand, Antonio Negri has inspired anti-empire movements around the world through his writings and personal example. Born in 1933, he was imprisoned in Italy in 1979 and convicted, nearly five years later, on questionable charges of association and insurrection against the state, whereupon he left the country to teach in France. In 1997, he voluntarily returned to Italy to serve out his …
Marxism Beyond Marxism
These essays critically rethink Marxism in the light of the disintegration of communist regimes Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Containing essays from a group of internationally distinguished writers and intellectuals, this collection addresses Marxism as a cultural-political problematic. Contending that Marxism is deeply embedded in specific cultural practices, the contributors illuminate Marxism's contribution to discussions of labour in p…
Sexual Difference Beyond Life And Death: Or, Feminism and the Biopolitical Turn
This essay understands and reflects on Elizabeth Grosz's latest work in terms of the passage from "the linguistic turn" to "the biopolitical turn" in twentieth-century thought. In particular, this essay asks what it means to want to hybridize feminism of sexual difference and evolutionary biology today, as Grosz does in her paper "Sexual Difference as Sexual Selection: Irigarayan Reflections on Darwin." In the end, this essay questions such a hyb…
Marx before Spinoza: Notes toward an Investigation
This chapter focuses on Spinoza as a theorist of capital and globalization. Concatenation and the totality it implies present Spinoza as a genuine theorist of globalization—Ethics appears as a response to capital and its totalizing imperative. According to Cesare Casarino’s argument, the explication that denotes and performs its meaning is not commensurable with representation in the sense that it activates potentiality in the process of interpre…
In Praise of the Common: A Conversation on Philosophy and Politics
The Southern Answer: Pasolini, Universalism, Decolonization
The Simulacrum of Aids1
It's a Powerful Life: A Conversation on Contemporary Philosophy
I'ts a Powerful Life:A Conversation on Contemporary Philosophy Cesare Casarino (bio) and Antonio Negri (bio) CESARE CASARINO: I would like to begin this conversation by turning to those contemporary thinkers who I believe come closest in some respects to your philosophical positions and political projects, namely, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, and Michel Foucault. Clearly, you have much in common with each of them. There are also, however, impo…
Pasolini in the Desert
Inscribed on these ruinous slopes There lie humankind's Magnificent and progressive destinies. Giacomo Leopardi, Broom; or, The Flower of the Desert2 Shelter all the images in language and make us
Time Matters: Marx, Negri, Agamben, and the Corporeal
Economy of time, to this all economy ultimately reduces itself. (Karl Marx) I On the first page of a 1978 essay entitled “Time and History: Critique of the Instant and the Continuum,” Giorgio Agamben writes: The original task of a genuine revolution...is never merely to “change the world,” but also—and first of all—to “change time.” Modern political thought has concentrated its attention on history, and has not elaborated a corresponding concepti…
Philopoesis: A Theoretico-Methodological Manifesto
Research Article| February 01 2002 Philopoesis: A Theoretico-Methodological Manifesto Cesare Casarino Cesare Casarino Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2002) 29 (1): 65–96. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-29-1-65 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Cesare Casarino; Philopoesis: A Theoretico-Methodological Manifesto. boundary 2 1 February 2002; 29 (…
Pornocairology: Or, The Communist Clinamen of Pornography
The Sublime of the Closet; Or, Joseph Conrad's Secret Sharing
Anti-Mimesis: From Plato to Hitchcock
Introduction: the legs of sense Part I. Dialogue and Inscription: 1. Othello, Bakhtin and the death(s) of dialogue 2. P.s.: Plato's scene of reading in the Protagoras Part II. Parables of Exteriority - Materality in 'Classic' American Texts: 3. Too legit to quit: the dubious genealogies of pragmatism 4. Poe's Foot d'Or: ruinous rhyme and Nietzschean recurrence (sound) 5. Only the dead know Brooklyn ferry (voice) 6. The letters of the law: 'Bartle…
Fragments on "Wings of Desire" (Or, Fragmentary Representation as Historical Necessity)
This film has a circus, at center. It is unannounced. We first catch sight of it from a distance, through one of those tunnels which often in cities run across and under elevated roads or highways. We approach circus, slowly, lured by melancholy music, and when we emerge from tunnel we are already inside tent, where Marion is swinging high on trapeze, wearing wide angel wings. When Karl Rossman, in Kafka's Amerika, emerges from underground statio…
Time Matters: Marx, Negri, Agamben, and the Corporeal
Economy of time, to this all economy ultimately reduces itself. (Karl Marx) I On the first page of a 1978 essay entitled “Time and History: Critique of the Instant and the Continuum,” Giorgio Agamben writes: The original task of a genuine revolution...is never merely to “change the world,” but also—and first of all—to “change time.” Modern political thought has concentrated its attention on history, and has not elaborated a corresponding concepti…
Philopoesis: A Theoretico-Methodological Manifesto
Research Article| February 01 2002 Philopoesis: A Theoretico-Methodological Manifesto Cesare Casarino Cesare Casarino Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2002) 29 (1): 65–96. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-29-1-65 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Cesare Casarino; Philopoesis: A Theoretico-Methodological Manifesto. boundary 2 1 February 2002; 29 (…
The Southern Answer: Pasolini, Universalism, Decolonization
Sexual Difference Beyond Life And Death: Or, Feminism and the Biopolitical Turn
This essay understands and reflects on Elizabeth Grosz's latest work in terms of the passage from "the linguistic turn" to "the biopolitical turn" in twentieth-century thought. In particular, this essay asks what it means to want to hybridize feminism of sexual difference and evolutionary biology today, as Grosz does in her paper "Sexual Difference as Sexual Selection: Irigarayan Reflections on Darwin." In the end, this essay questions such a hyb…
The Simulacrum of Aids1
The Sublime of the Closet; Or, Joseph Conrad's Secret Sharing
Fragments on "Wings of Desire" (Or, Fragmentary Representation as Historical Necessity)
This film has a circus, at center. It is unannounced. We first catch sight of it from a distance, through one of those tunnels which often in cities run across and under elevated roads or highways. We approach circus, slowly, lured by melancholy music, and when we emerge from tunnel we are already inside tent, where Marion is swinging high on trapeze, wearing wide angel wings. When Karl Rossman, in Kafka's Amerika, emerges from underground statio…
Anti-Mimesis: From Plato to Hitchcock
Introduction: the legs of sense Part I. Dialogue and Inscription: 1. Othello, Bakhtin and the death(s) of dialogue 2. P.s.: Plato's scene of reading in the Protagoras Part II. Parables of Exteriority - Materality in 'Classic' American Texts: 3. Too legit to quit: the dubious genealogies of pragmatism 4. Poe's Foot d'Or: ruinous rhyme and Nietzschean recurrence (sound) 5. Only the dead know Brooklyn ferry (voice) 6. The letters of the law: 'Bartle…
The Sublime of the Closet; Or, Joseph Conrad's Secret Sharing
Philopoesis: A Theoretico-Methodological Manifesto
Research Article| February 01 2002 Philopoesis: A Theoretico-Methodological Manifesto Cesare Casarino Cesare Casarino Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2002) 29 (1): 65–96. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-29-1-65 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Cesare Casarino; Philopoesis: A Theoretico-Methodological Manifesto. boundary 2 1 February 2002; 29 (…
Pornocairology: Or, The Communist Clinamen of Pornography
Time Matters: Marx, Negri, Agamben, and the Corporeal
Economy of time, to this all economy ultimately reduces itself. (Karl Marx) I On the first page of a 1978 essay entitled “Time and History: Critique of the Instant and the Continuum,” Giorgio Agamben writes: The original task of a genuine revolution...is never merely to “change the world,” but also—and first of all—to “change time.” Modern political thought has concentrated its attention on history, and has not elaborated a corresponding concepti…
It's a Powerful Life: A Conversation on Contemporary Philosophy
I'ts a Powerful Life:A Conversation on Contemporary Philosophy Cesare Casarino (bio) and Antonio Negri (bio) CESARE CASARINO: I would like to begin this conversation by turning to those contemporary thinkers who I believe come closest in some respects to your philosophical positions and political projects, namely, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, and Michel Foucault. Clearly, you have much in common with each of them. There are also, however, impo…
Pasolini in the Desert
Inscribed on these ruinous slopes There lie humankind's Magnificent and progressive destinies. Giacomo Leopardi, Broom; or, The Flower of the Desert2 Shelter all the images in language and make us
The Simulacrum of Aids1
In Praise of the Common: A Conversation on Philosophy and Politics
The Southern Answer: Pasolini, Universalism, Decolonization
Marx before Spinoza: Notes toward an Investigation
This chapter focuses on Spinoza as a theorist of capital and globalization. Concatenation and the totality it implies present Spinoza as a genuine theorist of globalization—Ethics appears as a response to capital and its totalizing imperative. According to Cesare Casarino’s argument, the explication that denotes and performs its meaning is not commensurable with representation in the sense that it activates potentiality in the process of interpre…
Marxism Beyond Marxism
These essays critically rethink Marxism in the light of the disintegration of communist regimes Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Containing essays from a group of internationally distinguished writers and intellectuals, this collection addresses Marxism as a cultural-political problematic. Contending that Marxism is deeply embedded in specific cultural practices, the contributors illuminate Marxism's contribution to discussions of labour in p…
Sexual Difference Beyond Life And Death: Or, Feminism and the Biopolitical Turn
This essay understands and reflects on Elizabeth Grosz's latest work in terms of the passage from "the linguistic turn" to "the biopolitical turn" in twentieth-century thought. In particular, this essay asks what it means to want to hybridize feminism of sexual difference and evolutionary biology today, as Grosz does in her paper "Sexual Difference as Sexual Selection: Irigarayan Reflections on Darwin." In the end, this essay questions such a hyb…
In Praise of the Common: A Conversation on Philosophy and Politics
A leading Marxist political philosopher and intellectual firebrand, Antonio Negri has inspired anti-empire movements around the world through his writings and personal example. Born in 1933, he was imprisoned in Italy in 1979 and convicted, nearly five years later, on questionable charges of association and insurrection against the state, whereupon he left the country to teach in France. In 1997, he voluntarily returned to Italy to serve out his …
Restating Things, Again
Images for Housework: On the Time of Domestic Labor in Gilles Deleuze's Philosophy of the Cinema
The Expression of Time (Spinoza, Deleuze, Cinema)
This essay investigates the absent presence of Baruch Spinoza’s thought in Gilles Deleuze’s Cinema 1: The Movement-Image and Cinema 2: The Time-Image and argues that the concept of expression—as articulated by Deleuze in his study on Spinoza, Expressionism in Philosophy, as well as in his Logic of Sense—constitutes the crucial condition of possibility of Deleuze’s philosophical theory of the cinema and, in particular, of his twofold understanding…
Releasing the Image: From Literature to New Media
Mourning Without End: A Start
The War on Mourning
This essay explores the relationship between the crisis of politics (both institutional and insurgent) and the work of mourning in our time, in which pandemics and wars accumulate victims, but institutional politics seems only capable of saturating losses with violence—while politics from below struggles to transform mourning into consciousness and rebellion. In dialogue with Sigmund Freud, Jacques Derrida, and Judith Butler, the author connects …
Absolute Ambivalence: On Modernity and Its Corpses
Starting from the COVID-19 pandemic—and engaging with works by Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, Jacques Lacan, Michel Foucault, Douglas Crimp, Judith Butler, and others—this essay speculates on the psychic situation of having to work through loss in the absence of the loved one’s corpse. This article also puts forth a concept of “absolute ambivalence” understood as the beyond of the mourning-melancholia dialectic and ultimately relates this concep…
Philosophy (10 works) · Aesthetics (8 works) · Art (8 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · History (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Art history (4 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (4 works)