Fascination
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4813825 |
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| Authors | Tom Roach (0000-0001-5574-2720, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 104-112 |
| Publication date | 2023-05-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | differences (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1040-7391 • E-ISSN: 1527-1986 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/10407391-10435618 |
| OpenAlex | W4382025731 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
Bersanian fascination is not merely a fleeting affective state. It is, rather, a mode of inquiry and a form of being. If Bersani is initially fascinated with the antisocial nature of sexual desire, he later becomes enthralled with a notion of fascinated witnessing that reveals an ontological enmeshment. This essay homes in on a passage in Homos that presages an important pivot in Bersani's intellectual trajectory: a pivot from a dialectical conception of a subjectivity forever alienated and at odds with external reality to an immanentist understanding of a subject always already connected to the world. Through an act of betrayal, Bersani leaves behind a Freudo-Proustian conception of desire as lack and embraces a concept of desire so radically exclusionary that it lacks nothing. Betrayal affords Bersani the opportunity to conceive of an ethical response to an inherently exclusionary sexual desire: an implicated, indiscriminate fascination with the world's appearances, indifferent to the psychology of desire
Aesthetics · Betrayal · Counterattack · Dialectic · Epistemology · Nothing · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Subjectivity · Computer Science · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Walter Benjamin Studies Compilation
| Highly cited | No |
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