Subjects and Simulations: Between Baudrillard and Lacoue-Labarthe

311 Pages·2014·2.419 MB·English

by  Anne O'Byrne (ed.), Hugh J. Silverman (ed.)

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Contents
Abbreviations ix
General Introduction
Between Subjects and Simulations—
at the Limits of Representation
Hugh J. Silverman and Anne O’Byrne 1
PART ONE: Representing Subjectivity
Introduction 15
1. Simulate This!:
The Seductive Return of the Real in Baudrillard
Drew A. Hyland 19
2. The Fiction of the Unconscious:
The Use and Abuse of Representation in Freud
Alina Clej 33
3. The Postmodern Subject:
Truth and Fiction in Lacoue-Labarthe’s Nietzsche
Hugh J. Silverman 47
4. The Subject of the Good:
Exhaltation without Representation
Stephen David Ross 57
PART TWO: The Art of Representation
Introduction 71
5. Fiction, Allegory, Irony:
The Unveiling of Lacoue-Labarthe
Massimo Verdicchio 75
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6. The Power of the Text:
Lacoue-Labarthe, Rorty, and the Literariness of Philosophy
Gary E. Aylesworth 89
7. Edging the Sublime:
Baudrillard and the Inaccessible Real
Basil O’Neill 103
8. In the Wake of Critique:
Notes from the Inside Cover of Baudrillard’s
Simulacra and Simulation
Thomas P. Brockelman 115
PART THREE: Unrepresentable Communities
Introduction 129

9. Utopia is Here:
Revolutionary Communities in Baudrillard and Nancy
Anne O’Byrne 133
10. Eden Foreclosed:
Lacoue-Labarthe and Nancy on Dreaming and Identification
Bettina Bergo 145

11. The (Ir)resistible Suffering of Others:
Tragedy, Death, and the Spectator
Robin May Schott 163
12. The Subjects of Philosophy:
“The We” and us
James R. Watson 173
PART FOUR: Political Mediations
Introduction 189

13. 9/11 and the Representation of the Unrepresentable:
Chora, Aleph, and Media/tion
Damian Ward Hey 193
14. Amerika (Kafka)/ America (Baudrillard):
Modern Media and Tele-tactility
Katherine Rudolph 207
Contents vii
15. Dressing Like Hitler:
Reality, Simulation, and Hyperreality
Martin G. Weiss 221
16. Moved by Appearances:
Metaphor, Metamorphosis, and Irony
Henk Oosterling 233
Notes 247
Bibliography 273
Index of Names 283
Index of Topics 287

Contributors 293

Abbreviations
B-A Jean Baudrillard. America (1986), trans. Chris Turner. (New York:
Verso, 1989).
B-Critique Jean Baudrillard. “Requiem pour les média” (1971) in Pour une
Critique de l’économie politique du signe. (Paris: Gallimard,
1972).
B-EC Jean Baudrillard. The Ecstasy of Communication (1987), trans.
Bernard and Caroline Schutze, ed. Sylvère Lotringer. (Brooklyn:
Autonomedia, 1988).
B-FS Jean Baudrillard. Fatal Strategies (1983), trans. Philip Beitchman
and W. G. J. Nieslochowski. (New York: Semiotext(e) / Pluto
Press, 1990).
B-IE Jean Baudrillard. Impossible Exchange (1999), trans. Chris Turner.
(London and New York: Verso, 2001).
B-Mirror Jean Baudrillard. The Mirror of Production (1973), trans. Mark
Poster. (St. Louis: Telos Press, 1975).
B-Paroxysm Jean Baudrillard. Paroxysm: Interviews with Philippe Petit (1997),
trans. Chris Turner. (London: Verso, 1998).
B-PC Jean Baudrillard. The Perfect Crime (1995), trans. Chris Turner.
(New York: Verso, 1996).
B-Seduction Jean Baudrillard. Seduction (1979), trans. Brian Singer. (London:
MacMillan, 1990).
B-SED Jean Baudrillard. Symbolic Exchange and Death (1976), trans. Ian
Hamilton Grant. (London: Sage Publications, 1993).
B-ST Jean Baudrillard. The Spirit of Terrorism and Other Essays (2002),
trans. Chris Turner. (New York: Verso, 2003).
B-SS Jean Baudrillard. Simulacra and Simulation (1981), trans. Sheila
Glaser. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995).
B-SW Jean Baudrillard. Jean Baudrillard: Selected Writings, ed. and
introd. Mark Poster, trans. James Benedict. (Stanford: Stanford
University Press, 1988).
B-TE Jean Baudrillard. The Transparency of Evil: Essays on Extreme
Phenomena (1990), trans. James Benedict. (New York: Verso,
1993).
Benjamin Walter Benjamin. Illuminations (1955), ed. and introd. Hannah
Arendt, trans. Harry Zohn. (New York: Schocken Books, 1969).
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