Towards an Ethics of Distance
Representation, Free Production and Virtuality
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9612760 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Enda Mccaffrey (Nottingham Trent University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 23-38 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Australian Journal of French Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0004-9468 • E-ISSN: 2046-2913 |
| Publisher | Liverpool University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3828/ajfs.2016.03 |
| OpenAlex | W2276195456 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 2 |
This article takes it inspiration from a crisis between Deleuzian free production and representation in contemporary virtual and digital culture. The aim is to sketch a different ethics to the ethics of difference between free production and representation as described by Deleuze and Guattari and invoked by Michel Foucault in his preface to Anti-Oedipe. This article outlines the case for an ethical relationality between these two structures which reflects the socio-political and ethical exigencies of our virtual and digital cultures: specifically, an ethics of relationality derived paradoxically from the distance inscribed in ethical philosophy. Drawing on an amalgamation of Ricoeurean ethics and social constructionism in a definition of selfhood, I argue for the need to stand back from the distanciating effects of the virtual revolution – not with a view to approximating the cultural politics of specificity in the logic of representation – but to see in the gap in “distance from” specificity, a space of ethical and philosophical agency wherein lies the value-added of otherness
Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Epistemology · Inscribed figure · Political science · Politics · Representation (politics · Sketch · Social science · Sociology · Virtuality (gaming · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Cultural Insights and Digital Impacts · Digital Media and Philosophy · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.17 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |