The sublime today: Re-partitioning the global sensible

Millennium: Journal of International Studies

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 657-681

  Shapiro, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1177/03058298060340031001     Document Type: Article

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1. Written by Stephen Frears and Steven Knight: Pinewood Shepperton Studios (2002).
2. Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Judgment, trans. J. H. Bernard (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2000), 102.
3. Ibid., 57.
4. The review is at [www.dvdanswers.com/index.php?c=9898s=2] (obtained 18 September 2005).
5. See Judith Butler, Precarious Life (New York: Verso, 2004).
6. See Hannah Arendt's discussion of imperialism in her The Origins of Totalitarianism (New York: Harcourt, 1973).
7. See Rancière on film in Solange Guenoun, 'An Interview with Jacques Rancière: Cinematographic Image, Democracy, and the Splendor of the...', Sites 4, no. 2 (Fall, 2000): 1-7.
8. Jacques Rancière, La Fable Cinematographique (Paris: Editions Du Seuil, 2001), 22.
9. Although there are many, among the most notable is Hannah Arendt's location of Kant's politics in his Critique of Judgment. See her Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy, ed. Ronald Beiner (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982).
10. Jacques Rancière, 'The Politics of Aesthetics', on the web at: [theater.kein.org/node/view/99] (obtained 23 March 2005).
11. Jacques Rancière, The Politics of Aesthetics, trans. Gabriel Rockhill (New York: Continuum, 2004), 65.
12. Rancière, 'The Politics of Aesthetics'.
13. The quotations are from Deleuze's review of the Kant and Hegel-influenced ontological position of Jean Hyppolite in Hyppolite's Logic and Existence: 'Jean Hyppolite's Logic and Existence', in Desert Islands and Other Texts (NY: Semiotext(e), 2004), 16.
14. Immanuel Kant, 'Perpetual Peace', in Kant: Political Writings, ed. Hans Reiss (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1970), 108.
15. These references to Jefferson's use of nature to warrant a Euro-American continental ethnogenesis are from my Deforming American Political Thought: Ethnicity, Facticity, and Genre (University Press of Kentucky, forthcoming 2006).
16. Jean-François Lyotard, 'After the Sublime: The State of Aesthetics', in The Inhuman, trans. Geoffrey Bennington and Rachel Bowlby (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1991), 137.
17. The quotation is from Lorrain Daston, 'Attention and the Values of Nature in the Enlightenment', in The Moral Authority of Nature, eds. Lorrain Daston and Fernando Vidal (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004), 101.
18. Kant, The Critique of Judgment, 117.
19. The expression, 'metapolitics of aesthetics' belongs to Jacques Rancière. See his 'The Sublime from Lyotard to Schiller: Two Readings of Kant and Their Political Significance', Radical Philosophy 126 (July/August, 2004), 13.
20. Gilles Deleuze, 'The Idea of Genesis in Kant's Esthetics', in Desert Islands and Other Texts, 70.
21. Kant Critique of Judgment, 119.
22. Ibid., 46.
23. Ibid., 63.
24. A recognition of the link between Kant's Critique of Judgment and his 'perpetual peace' provides a deeper appreciation of Kant's politics than is offered in the typical neo-liberal readings of the latter treatise by IR practitioners.
25. Rancière, 'The Sublime from Lyotard to Schiller', 94 and 12.
26. Ibid.
27. Kant, Critique of Judgment, 130.
28. Ibid., 131.
29. The Deleuze position is stated in 'The Idea of Genesis in Kant's Esthetics', 70,
30. and the Lyotard quotation is from 'After the Sublime: The State of Aesthetics', 142.
31. Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason, trans. Werner S. Pluhar (Indianapolis: Hackett, 2002), 63.
32. Ibid., 78.
33. See Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Pure Reason, trans. Paul Guyer and Allen W. Wood (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999).
34. And for a discussion of the delicate balance between passivity and activity in the Kantian subject, see Gilles Deleuze, Kant's Critical Philosophy, trans. Hugh Tomlinson and Barbara Habberjam (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984), 14-15.
35. My discussion here is benefiting from Daniel Smith's concise explication of the Kantian synthesis in his 'Translator's Introduction' to Deleuze, Francis Bacon, xv-xvi.
36. The quotation is from ibid., xvii.
37. Deleuze, 'Kant: Synthesis and Time', lecture of 14 March 1978, trans. Melissa McMahon on the web at www.webdeleuze.com/php/sommaire.html.
38. Ibid.
39. See, for example, Elisabeth Ellis comprehensive summary of the different approaches: Kant's Politics (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005), 49.
40. Ibid.
41. Ibid.
42. Deleuze, Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation, trans. Daniel W. Smith (Minneapolis: University of Minneasota Press, 2003), 14.
43. Ibid., 6.
44. Ibid., 59.
45. This section on Louis Malle's Pretty Baby is developed in my Deforming American Political Thought.
46. Giorgio Agamben, 'Beyond Human Rights', trans. Cesare Casarino in Radical Thought in Italy, eds. Paolo Virno and Michael Hardt (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996), 159.
47. The quotation is from my treatment of Kant's geography in my Cinematic Political Thought: Narrating Race, Nation and Gender (New York: NYU Press, 1999), 89.
48. See Kant's 'Perpetual Peace'.
49. Gayatri Spivak, 'Sammy and Rosie Get Laid', in Outside in the Teaching Machine (New York: Routledge, 1993), 252.
50. Ibid., 244.
51. Franco Moretti, Atlas of the European Novel (New York: Verso, 1998), 86.
52. Ibid., 117.
53. Ibid., 123.
54. The hotel guests also manifest an invisibility, but of a different kind. As Friedrich Kracauer notes, in his gloss on hotel lobbies, 'The visitors in the hotel lobby, which allows the individual to disappear behind the peripheral equality of social masks, correspond to the exhausted terms that coerce difference out of the uniformity of the zero', The Mass Ornament: Weimar Essays (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995), 181.
55. Jacques Rancière, Dis-agreement, trans. Julie Rose (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999), 36.
56. Ibid., 35.
57. Michel de Certeau, Practices of Everyday Life (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984), 35-36.
58. Ibid., 37.
59. Jacques Rancière, 'The Thinking of Dissensus: Politics and Aesthetics', paper read at the conference 'Fidelity to Disagreement: Jacques Rancière and the Political', Goldsmith College, September 2003, 17.
60. The quotations are from David Tomas, Beyond the Image Machine (New York: Continuum, 2004), 5.
61. Jean-François Lyotard, 'Introduction: About the Inhuman', in The Inhuman, 1.
62. The quotations are from an essay in which Rancière interprets the implications of Lyotard in the inhuman: Jacques Rancière, 'Who is the Subject of the Rights of Man', The South Atlantic Quarterly 103, no. 2/3 (Spring/Summer, 2004): 307.
63. Lyotard, 'Introduction: About the Inhuman', 2.
64. Rancière, 'Who is the Subject of the Rights of Man', 304.
65. Ibid., 103.
66. Rancière, 'The Politics of Aesthetics'.
67. Gilles Deleuze, Desert Islands, 260.
68. Michael J. Shapiro, 'The Events of Discourse and the Ethics of Global Hospitality', in Hakan Seckinelgin and Hideaki Shinoda, eds., Ethics and International Relations (New York: Palgrave, 2001), 125.