tailieunhanh - intellect Crash Culturesmodernity, mediation and the material phần 7

chúng tôi đã được xem xét. Nguyên tắc 'tiêu diệt' giá trị bằng cách fabulously uncodifiable sự kiện và các hành vi, nó enjoins sự hủy diệt không chỉ của các đối tượng và bản sắc của triết học truyền thống và lý thuyết chính trị, mà còn là một loại cơ sụp đổ hệ thống của 'nằm' subjectivities khám phá Haraway, Marsden và những người khác. | 10 Racing Fatalities White Highway Black Wreckage Harjit Kaur Khaira Gerry Carlin Figure Indian Chiefs by permission of the Hulton Getty picture library 117 Crash Cultures modernity mediation and the material Norman Mailer s essay The White Negro first published in 1957 opens with a bleak account of the anxious historical opacity that had been produced by the technologies of death in the first half of the twentieth century. Probably we will never be able to determine the psychic havoc of the concentration camps and the atom bomb upon the unconscious mind of almost everyone alive in these years Mailer writes arguing that the possibility of being doomed to die as a cipher in some vast statistical operation has produced a new and logical if pathological sensibility. If the subject was to endure under the equal threats of death or numbing conformity ensured by modern state technocracies then a radical acceptance of these conditions was the only response . the decision is to encourage the psychopath in oneself to explore that domain of experience where security is boredom and therefore sickness and one exists in the present that enormous present which is without past or future memory or planned intention. Mailer s template for this brutal existentialism was the American negro who in living on the margin between totalitarianism and democracy for two centuries had internalised such imperatives. What the white world was developing was a black man s code to fit their facts the new hipster must absorb the existential synapses of the Negro in order to become for practical purposes . a white Negro . In the face of hostile technology the dissenting West must become black Mailer 1963 242-5 . To become black existentially however problematic is to become minoritarian historically. As Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari write There is no history but of the majority or of minorities as defined in relation to the majority and they promote the minoritarian move to set oneself .