Interiority Beyond the Subject
摘要
Post-structuralist thought is either ambivalent to the self or outright hostile to it. The breakdown of the domination of the subject, the individual, and the greater enmeshment into processes of individuation that control undertakes is in a perverse way what Foucault, Deleuze, and many other post-structuralists called for. One might well wonder if taking these figures seriously then means embracing control fully and welcoming the exhaustion of subjectivity. Does it mean that these figures’ right wing accelerationist interpreters are their true heirs? I think not, though these thinkers are also not capable of fully responding to the challenge posed by control alone. This does not mean the critiques of the subject are wholly mistaken. Rather, where the subject is understood to maintain identity, recognition, current power structures, and the illusion of the isolated, autonomous individual, these critiques are broadly correct. However, the exhaustion of subjectivity does not threaten only these dimensions of the self (and in some ways intensifies them).