Michał Kisiel
Institute of English Cultures and Literatures
Faculty of Philology
University of Silesia in Katowice
Poland
A Critical Note on Ontopower: War, Powers and the State of Perception by Brian Massumi
Abstract: The note is dedicated to Brian Massumi's book Ontopower: War, Powers and the State of Perception. Massumi, representing the new-materialist trend in contemporary theory, attempts an analysis of the eponymous ontopower: a paradoxical order, which strives to predate the existence of the object of its own actions. Ontopower thus reveals itself as a figure of becoming, its own cause and the means of its own propulsion. According to Massumi, a typical example of a phenomenon shaping the model of the ontopower as he describes is George W. Bush's declaration of war on terrorism.
Keywords: Onto-epistemology, war on terrorism, Gilles Deleuze, precedence
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No. 37 (2018)
Published: 2019-02-05
10.31261/errgo
English
Język Polski