Scholars of literature in a number of languages explore dimensions of contemporary monstrosity, covering subjectivity and (ab)use of power and agency and
selfdom. Their topics include devotion, divergence, and desire: anthropophagy as a means of cultural formation; the monster factory: monsterization of characters in dystopias; warning!
Leto Astreides claims that the objective of the Butlerian Jihad was to attain a "machine attitude as much as the machines." He adds that people created cyborgs to "usurp our sense of beauty our necessary
selfdom out of which we make living judgments." This is precisely the kind of trajectory we appear to be on already, and I often ask myself what more needs to happen for a society to be engulfed in the moral panic it deserves.
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Kant's two worlds can be seen as related to Martin Heidegger's three worlds: 1) Mitwelt, or the "with-world," is the world around consisting of people (what Heidegger eventually came to call Dasein): this is an important part of Kant's world of physical phenomena--in this sense, man can be regarded as a human phenomenon (Teilhard de Chardin's terminology) surrounded by human phenomena; 2) Umwelt, the world around consisting of all objects and events, what we would call "the environment": this is also a major part of Kant's world of physical phenomena; 3) Selbstwelt, the world of the self, or "
selfdom": this is an essential part of Kant's world of physical phenomena that is also a gateway to the world of transcendental numina (the latter idea according to romantic theorists).
D1CEY, THE LAW OF THE CONSTITUTION 188 (1959); FRIEDRICH HAYEK, THE ROAD TO
SELFDOM 80-96 (1944); AMARTYA SEN, DEVELOPMENT AS FREEDOM 17 (1999); MAX WEBER, ECONOMY AND SOCIETY (1968); Joseph Raz, The Rule of Law and its Virtues, 93 LAW Q.
(8.) Robert Heilbroner, "The Road to
Selfdom," New York Review of Books 27 (April 17, 1980): 8.
Joseph Heidecker uses found figurative images and discarded materials to highlight the constructed nature or "mask" of gay
selfdom, what he calls "the revealing and concealing nature in people." Darren Lee Miller does much the same, mainly by photographing contrived tableaux of half-remembered scenes--like jails, fire stations, and communal showers--where sexuality and power inevitably collide and collude.
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Selfdom" (1982: 131)--as uncritically devoted to individualism.
wide side formation curl of earth i am out side now gold follows the vein the gold follows it the vein like puppetry calls this mine coal follows the strap smallen blue beads follow the ears everywhere there is turning flatted roof of
selfdom Initially, this particular section announces what "stretti, blunt music" does: this poem is a "wide side formation," a "curl of earth" on the page, the poet likewise "out side." "Everywhere" in the poem, "there is turning." Certainly, the reader discerns from "stretti, blunt music" gestures meant to articulate the poetic action, the sculptural inclinations in these poems.
The novel's venture to make the symptoms of cowardice into a scene of literary representation implicate the reader in unresolved conflicts that tear at the stitches where literature is affixed to
selfdom. In their progressive movement toward the representation of cowardice's political, psychological, and social meanings, the discursive strategies in Voyage au bout de la nuit draw the reading experience into convergence with an unfolding of the secret meaning of
selfdom encrypted within the figures of cowardice.