Ethics & Freedom: What Does It Mean to Implicate the Self? What Does It Mean to Break the Binary?
Half of this is from this morning, and the other half I situated with it. I wonder if it works. After re-reading Jameson’s essay, Deleuze and Dualism, I’m thinking this morning about ethics. Yesterday I wrote about ethics as a core orientation, and I wrote about it in the context of Jameson’s “metacommentary,” to say that Jameson’s project amount to among other things an ethics. In looking at the Deleuze essay, Jameson does not have kind words for ethics and he laments its resurgence. “In passing, one can even more strenuously deplore the revival of disciplines such as ethics today, after the ebbing of that modern period in which such disciplines had proved utterly contradictory and sterile, academic in the bad sense." What Jameson describes here is in fact, I think, an ethics that lacks metacommentary, that lacks self-awareness, and my account takes us even deeper into the personal. Metacommentary is not just to comment on the conditions of the problem, to assess the given probl...