Poiesis and Politics as Ecstatic Fetish: Foucault’s Ethical Demand

Authors

  • Sue Golding

Abstract

Relying on the form of the matter, as well as the content, this article is a playful and lyrical re-thinking of Foucault’s radical move to re-claim ‘otherness’ and the ‘other’ as ‘ecstatic’ fetish. Posed as such, ‘otherness’ and the technologies of identity this implies, neither stands as an opposition to Being/being nor as the ‘that’ which does not fit in. In this move, something rather peculiar also comes to light: a politics of the ethical that no longer relies on the mastery of logos. Indeed, it relies, on a radical ‘non-mastery’, a ‘beheaded mastery’; a kind of ‘coming’ without ‘be’. Could it be said that therein lies the beginning threads for a wholly different conception of freedom and democracy, not to mention the ‘I’ of this ‘me’?

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Published

2016-01-24

How to Cite

Golding, S. (2016). Poiesis and Politics as Ecstatic Fetish: Foucault’s Ethical Demand. Filozofski Vestnik, 18(2). Retrieved from https://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/filozofski-vestnik/article/view/3991

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Section

Power and Resistance / Pouvoir et résistance