Foreclosures of Finitude: On Kiarina Kordela's Epistemontology

In conversation with Kiarina Kordela's Epistemontology, this essay considers how biopolitical capitalism relies upon the structural exclusion of experiences of dying and loss, while valorizing semblances of immortal transcendence. Following Kordela's argument that biopower attempts to &quo...

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Published inDiacritics Vol. 49; no. 3; pp. 60 - 85
Main Author Godley, James A
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press 2021
Subjects
Capitalism
Death & dying
Epistemology
Grief
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich (1770-1831)
Lacan, Jacques Marie Emile (1901-1981)
Modernity
Ontology
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ISSN0300-7162
1080-6539
1080-6539
DOI10.1353/dia.2021.0030

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Summary:In conversation with Kiarina Kordela's Epistemontology, this essay considers how biopolitical capitalism relies upon the structural exclusion of experiences of dying and loss, while valorizing semblances of immortal transcendence. Following Kordela's argument that biopower attempts to "eternalize" the capitalist equation of being and value as coterminous with life through the production of experiences of false transcendence, this essay adds that the Hegelian critique of finitude clarifies the stakes of biopower's foreclosures of the death-event. With Lacan's account of foreclosure in mourning in Seminar VI, the essay concludes with how the potentiality of loss can reinscribe the subject's (non)rapport with eternity.
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ISSN:0300-7162
1080-6539
1080-6539
DOI:10.1353/dia.2021.0030