#joancopjec

[culturalbee]

Joan Copjec (2016) revisits Avicenna's 'Flying Man' hypothesis to understand the condition of the subject and to critique, constructively, Saba Mahmood's conception of the pious subject. Is a subject always bound by her practice? Is being embodied the only truth? Are we "manicured" (159)? #bookstagram #reading #joancopjec #sabamahmood #avicenna #flyingman

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[bookowlnews]

In making up and flaunting her romantic, imaginary scenarios ..she also flaunts, then, their stagey, cardboard character, the fact that behind this excess of visibility she remains invisible. Stella's "excess visibility" must be understood in these terms.

JOAN COPJEC

[bookowlnews]

Thus is narcissism the source of the malevolence.. which the subject ..unleashes on all its own representations.

narcissism ..must ..consist in the belief that one’s own being exceeds the imperfections of ..the self-image, .. since something always appears to be missing from any representation - JOAN COPJEC

[bookowlnews]

Sex serves ..to limit reason, to remove the subject from the realm of ..pure understanding. ..Sex is disjoined from the signifier,  it ..does not communicate itself..

..To say that the subject is sexed is to say that it is no longer possible to have any knowledge of him or her.

- Joan Copjec