Becoming a Master of an Island Again: On the Desire to be Bodiless

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Robinson Crusoe individual body bodiless vulnerability homo economicus

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Adriana Zaharijević, « Becoming a Master of an Island Again: On the Desire to be Bodiless », Repository of Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory of the University in Belgrade, ID : 10.1515/9783839456859

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This text is about contemporary bodies and accompanying fantasies about bodilessness. My main claim is that the paradoxical longing for bodilessness has its twin face in neoliberal and authoritarian regimes of rationality – in the desire to be in complete phantasmal possession of oneself and thus invulnerable to the endless reconfigurations of the world, and in the desire to return to the phantasmal times when society was ordained as an aggregate of self-contained, self-actualising individuals. Both fantasies have been invested in creating the paradigmatic figures of our time – the neoliberal homo economicus and the white masculine master of his property and affairs. I wager that both regimes build on the fiction of an independent, sovereign, self-sufficient, and self-actualising being – that is, an individual.

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