Nietzsche's Corps-e: Aesthetics, Politics, Prophecy, or, the Spectacular Technoculture of Everyday Life (Post-Contemporary Interventions)

576 Pages·1996·15.54 MB·English

by  Geoff Waite

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NIETZSCHE'S CORPS/E
Aesthetics, Politics, Prophecy, or,
The Spectacular Technoculture of Everyday Life
Geoff Waite
1996 DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS Durham & London
© 1996 Duke University Press
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printed page of this book.
This book is published with the aid of a grant from the Hull
Memorial Publication Fund of Cornell University.
for if

Let the dead bury their own dead. — Matthew 8:22
II n'y a que les morts qui' ne reviennent pas.
(It is only the dead who do not return.) — Bertrand Barere, 1794
There is no reason, which compels me to maintain that a body does not die,
unless it becomes a corpse; nay, experience would seem to point in
the opposite direction. —Benedict de Spinoza, 1675
Wir leiden nicht nur von den Lebenden,
sondern audi von den Toten. Le mortsaisit le vif!
(We suffer not only from the living, but also from the dead. The dead man
grabs the living!) — Karl Marx, 1867
Your dead are buried ours are reborn
you clean up the ashes we light the fire
they're queuing up to dance on socialism's grave
this funeral is for the wrong corpse. —The Mekons, 1991
Plate i. MarkTansey, Utopic, 1987, oil on canvas, 68 X 70 inches. Private collection.
Courtesy Curt Marcus Galiay> New York, ©Mark Tansey.
Contents
Prologue xi
1. Nietzsche, The Only Position as Adversary i
The Only Position i Incorporation as Adversary 7 Nietzsche/anism as
Concept (Spinoza) 21 Between the Lines 30 Structural Causality (Al-
thusser versus Heidegger) 34 Corps/e 51 Polemic and Hypothesis 58
Outline of the Argument, Anexact Philology 68 Utopic: Nietzsche
versus Freud versusMarx 98 Caveat on the Un/canny 118
2. Channeling beyond Interpretation 123
On Slogans: Aesthetics, Politics, Prophecy 123 Left-Nietzschoids,
BJght-Nietzscheans 139 Prom Bataille (Channel 3) to Nietzsche
(Channel 4) 166
3. Nietzsche's Esoteric Semiotics 195
Nietzsche 195 After Derrida 242 After Klossowski 265 Nietzsche
Again 275 Esoterrorism: The Process of Weeding Out 288
4. Trasformismo from Gramsci to Dick, or, The Spectacular
Technoculture of Everyday Life 339
Preliminaries 339 Trasformismo 365 Technoculture/Everyday
Life 372
Epilogue 391
Too Much Nietzsche 391 The Toilet Was Full of Nietzsche 391
Nietzsche in Dormancy 392 Caput mortuum, or, The Industrialists of
the Corps/e 392 Mao III 392 On the Dead Burying Their
Dead 393 Nietzsche's Last Words 394 TheLastWord 395
Afofef 397
Jw/fca: 555
Plate 2. MzckTmscy,Derrida Queries de Man, 1990, oil on canvas, 83% X 55
inches. Collection of Michael and Judy Ovitz, Los Angeles. Courtesy Curt Marcus Gallery,
New Tork, ©Mark Tansey.