By Thomas Phillips
Using a variety of theoretical and inventive texts, Phillips deals an exam of subjectivity as thought of, enacted, and embodied, throughout the body of minimalist aesthetics. Provocatively, he makes the declare that lived event is able to being sophisticated in line with the ironically wealthy parameters of a minimalist aesthetic.
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Any teacher of literature can speak to the gleeful phenomenon of students reading and learning, and paradoxically, being dispossessed of former, limited selves, however subtle this shift. And yet, whatt is gained or lost is perhaps not as interesting as how, how imperceptibility emerges or becomes, and when. Despite the seeming omnipresence of what Deleuze and Guattari call the “plane of organization” that is “always trying to plug the lines of flight, stop or interrupt the movements of deterritorialization, weigh them down, restratify them, reconstitute forms and subjects in a dimension of depth” (Thousand d 270), an oppositional pressure is exerted in the form(lessness) of the “plane of consistency” or, more relevant to the present study, “composition” (266).
That of penis and phallus; and its most central signifier . . , the family” (quoted, 178), she is acceding to psychoanalytic categories that cannot be taken as givens. The “dominant fiction” may indeed function partly as a manipulation of impulses based on desire originating in primary acts of identification with the other. 16 Another issue arises with regard to the viability of the “loving” gaze. Even if the viewer does attain to a “new subjectivity,” and even if this subjectivity resists being incorporated into normative standards of idealization, the question remains as to the degree to which the “new look” is transformative of the self/other opposition as well as the immediate condition of the identification.
7 While fear may be the emotional result of the suspected condition, what compels the subject to compensate for the threat is desire. Like Aristophanes’s bisected humans wandering about in search of their other halves, the Freudian/Lacanian subject desires what she or he presumes to be (potentially) sundered from his or her person. In other words, the subject desires to be whole and will go to curious extremes to acquire what is believed to be his or her natural birthright in the face of all deleterious impulses to the contrary.