By Scott Wilson
Provocative exploration of a brand new notion of "joy" inside psychoanalytic and cultural reviews.
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The Structure of the Real 25 Deprived of a master signifier, devoid of a global symbolic structure that could organize subjects into a shared system of belief, or of an other state that might provide the semblance of unity through opposition, governance has become acephalic, rhizomatic, immanent. An empire that is at once both military and economic, driven by the flows of the global finance system, dissolves and reconstitutes social ties according to the dictates of a depersonalized regulatory mechanism.
If the real has a preferred modality in its encounters with speaking beings it is war, a war that is continuous, perpetual, unrelenting, and always missed. It is a war that provides the condition of the rhetoric, blood and thunder of historical action, a war that lies beyond the automata, the rapid response, the automatic weaponry, both psychic and prosthetic, of the machineries of desire and combat. Real war constitutes the field of battle, rather than takes place on one. As Deleuze writes, in his commentary on Nietzsche, “all reality is already quantity of force” (1983: 40).
Event (I◊S Ϫ r) An event that is actualized in the corporatization of scientific functionality is the loss of the reality of death as a defining point for life. “Death does not authenticate human existence. It is an outmoded evolutionary strategy. The body no longer need be repaired but simply have parts replaced. Extending life no longer means ‘existing’ but rather of being ‘operational’” (Stelarc, 1997). Instead of marking an end point, death becomes a purely functional, immanent principle of becoming that can evolve anorganic life to such a degree that it can survive the death of the sun.