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{"title":"The digital conscious: the becoming of the Jungian collective unconscious","authors":"Sharif Abdunnur, Krystle Houiess","doi":"10.59391/inscriptions.v2i1.28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59391/inscriptions.v2i1.28","url":null,"abstract":"The rise of the digital domain has created a new virtual world that is eternal and ethereal and with it, has created a philosophical entropy state where more than ever technology has superseded cultural thought and ethics.   What Jung once described as the collective unconscious was deemed once as being parapsychology or too esoteric is now a conscious reality of creation.  We now, accidentally or intentionally, take part in creating a collective unconscious that more than ever has a visible presence and massive direct and indirect effect on our cultural groups as well as having a global unconscious appeal. ","PeriodicalId":32883,"journal":{"name":"Inscriptions","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78113803","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The boundary of love: art, paranoia and deadlock","authors":"T. Fjeld","doi":"10.59391/inscriptions.v2i1.29","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59391/inscriptions.v2i1.29","url":null,"abstract":"The Norwegian-Australian artist Bjarne Melgaard has become known for his lavish, hedonistic displays that defy all norms associated with sexuality, substance abuse and art. Claiming that his art does not need to be compelling, since a Melgaard painting is “not about what we observe, but a painting that observes us,” Melgaard radically reformulates the surrealist posture in a way that obliterates the artist as subject. When Melgaard admits to terrible pangs of paranoia we should not be surprised that his projected new home carries the title “A house to die in,” echoing both the artist’s creative vision and his self-perception as a mortal subject. Originally situated on the ground where the progenitor of Norwegian plastic arts, Edvard Munch, lived and drew his famous oak trees, it generated lively debate about the respective artists’ place in Norwegian cultural history and the way they relate to their natural and social contexts. This paper sets out to understand Melgaard’s art in light of three relations between art and its creative subject. While to Jacques Lacan we relocate ourselves as whole subjects when we reaffirm the father as law-giving instance, Martin Heidegger’s suggestion was that the subject can truly only encounter itself in so far as it is ecstatically outside itself. Ultimately, Melgaard’s destiny turns out to be analogous to that of a dominant trend in contemporary art as such. As Slavoj Žižek points out, his kind of opportunistic, permanent transgressivity can only lead to dullness and deadlock. Can the end of Melgaard’s personal housing project usher into a new era beyond this deadlock?","PeriodicalId":32883,"journal":{"name":"Inscriptions","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85843168","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The uses of a national wound: Reflecting Absence, trauma and the global war on terror","authors":"Tomoaki Morikawa","doi":"10.59391/inscriptions.v2i1.24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59391/inscriptions.v2i1.24","url":null,"abstract":"At the World Trade Center site in New York City where the terrorist attacks happened on September 11, 2001, the memorial called Reflecting Absence is now standing.  Instead of covering up the physical and psychological wound of 9/11, Reflecting Absence structurally incorporates the trauma of 9/11 as the memorial’s framing structure.  In this paper, I focus on the link between the trauma of 9/11 and Reflecting Absence.  More specifically, I examine the latter as the expression of the former to reveal this link.  In so doing, this paper also identifies what kind of role Reflecting Absence is potentially playing in the post-9/11 American society.  By teasing out the ways in which this memorial evokes the trauma of 9/11 for visitors, this paper discusses the politics in which Reflecting Absence has been engaged as an apparatus of memory.","PeriodicalId":32883,"journal":{"name":"Inscriptions","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75144272","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The prism of petrol: drive, desire and the energy unconscious in Anna Kavan’s Ice","authors":"S. Orpana","doi":"10.59391/inscriptions.v2i1.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59391/inscriptions.v2i1.27","url":null,"abstract":"This essay argues that psychoanalytic modes of interpretation can help us understand and intervene in the blockages and fantasies hindering the exodus from fossil fuel use that contemporary science tells us is urgently necessary. A reading of Anna Kavan's 1967 science fiction novel Ice reveals an \"energy unconscious\" at work by which petroleum fuels a violent and masculinist resolution to the alienation and fragmentation experienced by the protagonists. Such interpretations allow us to recognize how culture and subjectivity are shaped by petroleum, opening a space to work towards framing new narratives and values.","PeriodicalId":32883,"journal":{"name":"Inscriptions","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78993318","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ethics and artificiality","authors":"Wolfgang Schirmacher, D. Theisen","doi":"10.59391/inscriptions.v1i1.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59391/inscriptions.v1i1.11","url":null,"abstract":"This essay interrogates the place of ethics, which needs to be located  in philosophy alongside studies of being. Ethics is not an omniscient field of study: there is a room outside ethics, and yet there is ethics. The question here is: of what kind is this ethics? We cannot resort to nature in our search for an ethical stance. References to evolution or constraints of instrumental technology in themselves do not suffice to argue for ethical positions. Neither can we rely on extrahuman forces, such as theologicians and metaphysicians do in their ethical ruminations. Rather, we need to fully acknowledge our art of life. When we undertake a phenomenological study of our life as environment we study “how life lives”. Crucial to such an endeavour is a close observance of a highly complex form of responsibility: we need to fully face up to our failures and successes in order to fully grasp the sufferings brought on to other species through animal testing, or the questions posed by our encounter with AIDS. We need to be able to face death while we interrogate the possibility of life, love and love of life.","PeriodicalId":32883,"journal":{"name":"Inscriptions","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85506121","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Heidegger's radical critique of technology as an outline of social acts","authors":"Wolfgang Schirmacher, T. Fjeld","doi":"10.59391/inscriptions.v1i1.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59391/inscriptions.v1i1.17","url":null,"abstract":"The present text shows that the prevailing view of Martin Heidegger's approach to society and technology is not only based on prejudice, but more importantly works to obscure a more relevant perception of reality. Heidegger's “phenomenological hermeneutic” sought to uncover technology's hidden truth, beyond the appearance of technology as framing our existence (Gestell). Even if we acknowledge that technology has now reached a planetary and all-encompassing dissemination – becoming, in effect, the leading figure of our time – we still need to remain vigilant to the metaphysical notions embedded in such a characteristic. We should seek other ways of living with and within technology. A radical critique should seek topologies and “orders” that are universal and preliminary, so that by potentially exceeding every demarcation we can be liberated to a way of listening – a “hearing” (Hören) – to a “constellation” of a different “essence of technology”.","PeriodicalId":32883,"journal":{"name":"Inscriptions","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89833230","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"white feather","authors":"Jeff Lewis","doi":"10.59391/inscriptions.v1i1.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59391/inscriptions.v1i1.12","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":32883,"journal":{"name":"Inscriptions","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78353846","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Bringing Arthur back","authors":"A. Mills","doi":"10.59391/inscriptions.v1i1.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59391/inscriptions.v1i1.14","url":null,"abstract":"The second coming of Arthur brought out the best in me. People began to recognise that I was a born leader. “Born to organise,” said Julie’s brother when he introduced me to the Creative Anachronists. “He may be a runt but he’s a clever runt, and he knows absolutely all there is to know about King Arthur.” I smiled and pretended to ignore the insult. Let them wait until I brought back Arthur, and then he’d sing another tune. Yelp another yelp, instead of yapping at me. Truth was, I needed the Creative Anachronists to help bring back Arthur, or at least I thought I did. They were the ones with the mediaeval armour, and the expertise at cooking up mediaeval feasts, and the clothes, and the shoes with long curved toes, and the tent. I didn’t want Arthur to feel terrified when he arrived. A day or two of creative anachronism should settle him down nicely before he had to face electric lights and toilets and cars. It wasn’t long before I discovered my mistake. These muscleheads knew nothing about Arthur beyond knights in shining armour and maidens waving at them from the balcony at spic-and-span tournaments. No horse-droppings for them. No horses, in fact, and that was actually a bonus for me. No-one is sure if Arthur actually knew about using horses in battle. I didn’t want my Arthur hiding under the table from a horse. The real problem with the Creative Anachronists was that they played fast and loose with time. Their armour came from a mishmash of centuries. They all wore clothes better than any mediaeval king could have dreamed of, cotton, lycra, stretch velvet. Zips. Bras and elasticated knickers, I dare say, not that I ever saw their underwear. And they all wanted to play at being kings and princesses and champions of the realm. Where were the milkmaids and the kitchen boys, the midwives and foresters and village idiots and army followers? I did not want my Arthur to find himself in the middle of a host of the highest nobility, speaking a language that he could not understand. That was the point where I fell out with Julie. I’d met her at the Old English class at university, the first girl I’d ever really talked to, after the embarrassment of asking her out for a cup of coffee had finally been overcome. By me, that is. Julie never seemed at all keen on cups of coffee with me after that first time, after she’d listened to me tell her about Old English and Church Latin and how to do the assignment. After that, she kept telling me she was too busy for coffee at the university, and at the Creative Anachronists she was always excusing herself to go off and enchant the crowd. Enchant-a-crowd Julie, I began to call her, though never to her face. Anyway, it was over an assignment in Old English that we met, and when she discovered that I was fluent in Latin and majoring in mediaeval history she couldn’t wait to introduce me to her brother, the president of the Creative Anachronists. That’s how I came to join them. “A born organiser,” he said, and right ","PeriodicalId":32883,"journal":{"name":"Inscriptions","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86467310","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Technoculture and life technique","authors":"Wolfgang Schirmacher, Daniel Theisen","doi":"10.59391/inscriptions.v1i1.20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59391/inscriptions.v1i1.20","url":null,"abstract":"The present article provides grounds for ethical singularity in a world of technological culture. Against a backdrop of crises in the foundations of our established order, particularly with regard to our faith in a certain approach to objectivity, our refusal to acknowledge the Nietzschean death-of-god, and our disregard for Schopenhauer's insight that the only resolution to our suffering is by way of a voluntary extinguishing of our very will-to-life, Wolfgang Schirmacher proposes a phenomenological approach to our epoch of artificial life – a time of biotechnological creation, technoculture and virtual worlds – where we carry the full responsibility that follows from having created our world. Avoiding the double pitfalls of euphoria and distrust in the face of technoculture Schirmacher suggests a set of life techniques that can work towards the kind of equality and fulfilment made possible by an anthropomorphic, rather than an anthropocentric, perception of the world. In the place of a technoculture given to domination, goal-orientation and prefabricated norms this article proposes five specific barriers to our “progress towards inhumanity”: an erasure of the self; refuse or trash art; indirectness (such as in mediated histories); silence and chaos; and a rereading of Heidegger's Fourfold (Geviert). It is in such a crux that Homo generator – the one who stands as originary to an entire life-world of technoculture – can begin a militant releasement of justice where we bear full responsibility and yet hold no privilege.","PeriodicalId":32883,"journal":{"name":"Inscriptions","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72913975","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A passage towards death, or the phenomenology of no longer reading","authors":"D. Fraser","doi":"10.59391/inscriptions.v1i1.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59391/inscriptions.v1i1.16","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the interruption of the phenomenological experience of reading caused by an encounter with a particularly striking sentence or passage. More specifically, the text interprets the passage of language from text to reader as a moment of quotation whereby language is inscribed within the register of biological life. Drawing on the work of Blanchot and Benjamin the article suggests that this capture of a textual fragment, its transfer into the reader’s memory, simultaneously challenges and reaffirms the violence of conceptuality Hegel identified at the heart of language.","PeriodicalId":32883,"journal":{"name":"Inscriptions","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90038219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}