MLN bulletinPub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1353/mln.2022.0056
Anne M. Mulhall
{"title":"The Deadly Time of Capitalism: Suicide and Plasticity in the French Workplace","authors":"Anne M. Mulhall","doi":"10.1353/mln.2022.0056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mln.2022.0056","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Over the past twenty-five years, structural changes within French corporate life have given rise to an increase in workplace suicide. Waves of scholarly work, as well as novels and films, have emerged in response. Catherine Malabou, with her focus on work, time, and death, has so far been absent from these conversations. While exploring these problems in Malabou’s writing, this article considers their resonance in the worker-suicide film Corporate (2017). In doing so, it situates the crisis of workplace suicide, and its aestheticization in film, against emerging positions on the plasticity of the brain and the logic of human value.","PeriodicalId":78454,"journal":{"name":"MLN bulletin","volume":"15 1","pages":"778 - 800"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75490831","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}
MLN bulletinPub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1353/mln.2022.0048
C. Malabou
{"title":"Quand on n’a que le discours: Réflexions sur la forme","authors":"C. Malabou","doi":"10.1353/mln.2022.0048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mln.2022.0048","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Les rapports entre philosophie et art ont pris un tour nouveau à la fin du XXe siècle après les événements historiques traumatiques qu’ont été la Shoah et toutes les formes de totalitarisme qui en ont été les contemporaines. L’art, selon Lyotard et Rancière, se devrait de trouver une forme d’expression de ces traumatismes, dans la mesure où le logos philosophique serait incapable de faire droit aux discours des victimes. Cette expression est-elle de l’ordre de la représentation ou de l’imprésentable ? Nous tenterons ici de montrer qu’une telle question a aujourd’hui perdu sa pertinence.","PeriodicalId":78454,"journal":{"name":"MLN bulletin","volume":"334 1","pages":"637 - 645"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76564694","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}
MLN bulletinPub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1353/mln.2022.0050
H. Opelz
{"title":"Plasticité du dehors","authors":"H. Opelz","doi":"10.1353/mln.2022.0050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mln.2022.0050","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Lire Maurice Blanchot à l’aune du concept de plasticité élaboré par Catherine Malabou. Voilà, en clair, ce que nous nous proposons de faire. Un texte de Malabou sur ce qu’elle nomme la « neuro-littérature » servira de catalyseur à la lecture, le « dehors » de Blanchot de point névralgique des enjeux que renferme la question de la littérature, de l’art. Question dont Malabou pratiquerait la relève neurobiologique, c’est-à-dire, selon l’hypothèse que nous avançons ici, la relève aussi d’une certaine tradition esthétique dans la déconstruction.","PeriodicalId":78454,"journal":{"name":"MLN bulletin","volume":"33 7 1","pages":"657 - 672"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82777238","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}
MLN bulletinPub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1353/mln.2022.0059
Nicola H. Karam
{"title":"The Last Revolutionaries: The Conspiracy Trial of Gracchus Babeuf and the Equals by Laura Mason (review)","authors":"Nicola H. Karam","doi":"10.1353/mln.2022.0059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mln.2022.0059","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":78454,"journal":{"name":"MLN bulletin","volume":"23 1","pages":"841 - 844"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87628476","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}
MLN bulletinPub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1353/mln.2022.0051
Benjamin Dalton
{"title":"Plasticity and Formlessness between Malabou and Bataille","authors":"Benjamin Dalton","doi":"10.1353/mln.2022.0051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mln.2022.0051","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article stages an encounter between Catherine Malabou’s plasticité and Georges Bataille’s informe. Malabou’s transdisciplinary philosophy of plasticity observes the mutability and transformability of all forms, from aesthetic forms to the neuroplastic form of the human brain. By contrast, Bataille’s informe implies that the universe is radically formless and that all attempts to give form to it are doomed. While Malabou’s plastic approach to form and Bataille’s ideological suspicion of all form might initially seem irreconcilable, this article argues that these concepts in fact intersect dynamically, developing plastic-formless approaches to form, both aesthetic and organic, between the two thinkers.","PeriodicalId":78454,"journal":{"name":"MLN bulletin","volume":"6 1","pages":"673 - 690"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88915212","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}
MLN bulletinPub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1353/mln.2022.0053
R. Kilroy
{"title":"Between the Fear and the Fall: Malabou, Art, and the Symptomatic Plasticity of AI","authors":"R. Kilroy","doi":"10.1353/mln.2022.0053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mln.2022.0053","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article proposes a new theoretical model for interrogating the relationship between technology and subjectivity at the dawn of a post-pandemic age. Through the lens of art, Catherine Malabou’s concept of plasticity is aligned with Slavoj Žižek’s notion of the symptom. First, Žižek’s critical reading of Malabou is used as the basis for a symptomatic interpretation of plasticity. A reversal of this perspective—reading Žižek back through Malabou—then allows for a plastic reading of the symptom, which is finally extended into an analysis of AI. This crossing of conceptual threads remodels Žižek’s theoretical “short-circuit” as a more malleable—infra-disciplinary—exchange.","PeriodicalId":78454,"journal":{"name":"MLN bulletin","volume":"20 1","pages":"708 - 736"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89495214","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}
MLN bulletinPub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1353/mln.2022.0052
M. Cronin
{"title":"Formes de vie, formes de fuite","authors":"M. Cronin","doi":"10.1353/mln.2022.0052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mln.2022.0052","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:On explore ici la pertinence de la pensée de Catherine Malabou pour différentes pratiques artistiques – picturale, musicale, littéraire. À la lumière de ses diverses interventions philosophiques, on cherche à mettre en évidence toute l’importance des arts dans l’avènement des formes de fuite dans nos sociétés. La notion de l’ontologie de l’accident dans le cadre de la catastrophe écologique à venir nous offre également la possibilité de réfléchir à l’évolution d’une pensée multi-spéciste dans les arts. Le choc ontologique chez Malabou est mis en rapport avec la notion du style tardif dans les écrits d’Edward Saïd pour aboutir à une lecture de la fin de vie des artistes. L’analyse d’un tableau de Giotto nous permet de montrer enfin comment c’est le propre d’un certain type de plasticité de pouvoir interrompre sa propre automaticité.","PeriodicalId":78454,"journal":{"name":"MLN bulletin","volume":"6 1","pages":"691 - 707"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82089929","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}
MLN bulletinPub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1353/mln.2022.0057
C. Malabou, H. Opelz
{"title":"L’avenir de la mimèsis: Entretien avec Catherine Malabou","authors":"C. Malabou, H. Opelz","doi":"10.1353/mln.2022.0057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mln.2022.0057","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Dans cet entretien, il est question du concept de mimèsis tel qu’il est repris par Catherine Malabou dans des réflexions récentes sur l’intelligence artificielle. Sont entre autres discutés le rapport de la mimèsis à la plasticité et la création de concepts, à la contingence et la narrativité, au transhumanisme et la notion d’accomplissement, au savoir artificiel et l’inimitable, à la représentation et le sujet, à l’anarchisme et la technologie, à la blockchain et le métavers. Évoquant Aristote, Kant, Ricœur, Lyotard, Derrida, Lacoue-Labarthe, c’est tout une histoire de la mimèsis qui se trouve ainsi réactivée pour interroger l’intelligence artificielle à l’ère des réseaux informatiques décentralisés. Mais c’est aussi, réciproquement, le concept même de mimèsis qui à son tour devient l’objet d’une interrogation sur ce qui lui reste d’avenir pour la pensée. .","PeriodicalId":78454,"journal":{"name":"MLN bulletin","volume":"15 1","pages":"801 - 813"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86444579","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}