PJRP - Interview with Arthur Kroker - Part 9
Channel: Relationalities
Date: 2011-09-23

In your seminar Bodies and Power, you have often suggested that the language of the vampire, the undead, and the zombie best fits the grammar of our subjectivity. Can you explain what you mean by the generative dimension of the uncanny? What are the implication of this form of imaging and discursive unconsciousness?

With the progress of biotechnologies and the digital connection of bodies and image machines, it is often said that we no longer inhabit a body but a multiplicity of bodies. Is it true that we live in an increasingly borderless and fluid world?  Do "we" share these bodies "with others"?

Are we passive or active nihilists?  Is the longing sometimes found in political theory for an "outside", like a better foundation myth or a more inclusive ontology, an indication that we remain incomplete nihilists looking for something in which we can invest our faith?  In other words, is relationality a symptom of post-modern nihilism.

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