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Non-Conceptual Negativity: Damaged Reflections on Turkey

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Zafer Aracagök, Franco Berardi
2019
Published by: Punctum Books
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Non-Conceptual Negativity: Damaged Reflections on Turkey critiques those who have accused Deleuze of an unbounded affirmation which, according to them, has played directly into the hands of capitalist modes of production. Yet no one has acknowledged that under the aegis of nano-fascism, late capitalism has grown into Neanderthal capitalism, invented and developed in laboratory countries like Turkey with the aid of an international Neanderthal league. Layer upon layer, Aracagök explains in fragmentary fashion that it is not only a matter of how Turkey has grown into a prime laboratory of nano-fascism with the aid of the US and the European Union, but also how the results obtained from this laboratory are put into practice in different countries under Neanderthal capitalism, enslaving each and every one of us into accepting even the position of suicide bomber. As none of us is exempted from nano-fascism today, perhaps it is timely to reconsider the ways in which Deleuzian thought is appropriated in the form of an unquestioned affirmation of everything and how its critique has ended up in an old-fashioned formulation of the in-dividual according to a party program. If this all goes to show that we are face to face with a route different from the accepted forms of affirmation — that is, if we are all affirmed and seem to be happily affirming life as it is as a result of the Neanderthal manipulation of the negative — then isn’t it timely to rethink the Deleuzian affirmation in its non-originary origin with regard to Adorno’s resistance against affirmation? That is, the double negation never ends up in affirmation, and if it does so, it might mean your negation is not strong enough.

Table of Contents

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Cover

Half-Title Page, Copyright, Title Page

pp. i-viii

Contents

pp. ix-xii

Foreword

pp. xiii-xvi

Author's Preface: An Imaginary Report from a Victim of Neanderthal Capitalism

pp. xvii-xxii

Divergent

pp. 23

Nano-Fascism

pp. 24

Desire Production Zero

pp. 25

Figure

pp. 26

Hetero-Power-Rat

pp. 27

Capitalism, Neanderthalism, and the Despot

pp. 28-29

Orientalism

pp. 30

Confession

pp. 31-32

Boredom

pp. 33

Paradoxical Element

pp. 34-35

Un-Mimetic

pp. 36

Hegel-Nano-Organism

pp. 37

Neanderthal Manifesto

pp. 38-39

Torn to Pieces But Still Standing

pp. 40

Suicide Bomber

pp. 41

Macro/Micro/Nano-Fascism

pp. 42-43

Romanticism

pp. 44-46

Now

pp. 47-48

The Subject

pp. 49

Somnambulist Situationists

pp. 50-51

Wish

pp. 52

Representation

pp. 53-54

When Will They Come to an End

pp. 55

In Memoriam: Ulus Baker

pp. 56-57

The Thing

pp. 58

Pessimism

pp. 59-60

Schizo-Incest

pp. 61

Application

pp. 62

Plato, Mimesis, Coup d’état

pp. 63

The Figure

pp. 64

Aufhebung in Reverse

pp. 65

The King-Fish

pp. 66

White Noise

pp. 67-68

Maps and Coordinates

pp. 69

Aporia

pp. 70

The Artwork

pp. 71

Negation of Negation vs. Affirmation

pp. 72-74

Project

pp. 75-76

Castrators of Desire

pp. 77

Michael Kohlhaas

pp. 78-80

Neanderthal Rationality

pp. 81

Literature

pp. 82-84

The Dream

pp. 85

Bartleby

pp. 86

Onto-Terrorism

pp. 87-88

Sculpture

pp. 89-90

Birds, Horses, Insects...

pp. 91

"Philosopher"

pp. 92-93

Negotiations

pp. 94

Economy, Capital, and Rape

pp. 95-96

Children

pp. 97-98

Photograph

pp. 99-100

Old Age

pp. 101

Negativity

pp. 102

Cutupidité

pp. 103-104

Animals

pp. 105-106

Champions of Affirmation

pp. 107

Partisans

pp. 108

Metaphysics

pp. 109

Stupidity

pp. 110

Zombie-Art

pp. 111-112

Mimesis

pp. 113

Adorno: Negative Dialectics

pp. 114-116

Laughter

pp. 117

New Year

pp. 118

Shock: 2017

pp. 119

Antidote

pp. 120

Caravaggio

pp. 121-122

Repetition

pp. 123-124

Surrender

pp. 125

Somnambulist Situationist Manifesto

pp. 126

Non-Conceptual Negativity

pp. 127-130

Bibliography

pp. 131-142
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