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Life, Identity, Difference Life, Identity, Difference
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Deleuze, ŽiŽek and a Life of the Political Deleuze, ŽiŽek and a Life of the Political
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Repetition, Theft, Gift Repetition, Theft, Gift
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The Life of Time and the Repetition of the Gift The Life of Time and the Repetition of the Gift
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Žižek Contra Guattari Žižek Contra Guattari
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Simulacra of the Gift (Deleuze and Guattari Contra Lyotard) Simulacra of the Gift (Deleuze and Guattari Contra Lyotard)
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The Promise of Escape The Promise of Escape
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Conclusion Conclusion
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2. The Eternal Return of the Gift: Deleuze (and Derrida) contra Lacan
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Published:April 2011
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Abstract
Through the work of Deleuze and Guattari, this chapter further develops the idea of the gift as event, the giving of an existence that repeatedly and constitutively evades subjective identification. It is moreover this evasion that gives rise to politics, which is argued to consist in precisely the impossibility of identifying what it is that is given in the event. The second part of the chapter focuses on the elements of a Deleuzo-Guattarian reading of the (Maussian) gift economy suggested in Anti-Œdipus, and attenuates the long-standing and influential claim that Deleuze and Guattari naively romanticise archaic society, conflating the archaic gift economy with the aneconomic gift of the event. Referring to recent work in anthropology (e.g., Weiner, Strathern and Bourdieu), as well as to Nietzsche, it is argued that their reworking of Mauss and Lêvi-Strauss actually serves to illustrate the thesis that the political emerges in response to the gift, as an attempt to curb the prospect of an event that would jeopardise the metastability of society. The archaic gift economy becomes simply one way among several of forestalling the uncertainty, the instability that would coincide with the exposure to the event.
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