Cartography of Exhaustion

Nihilism Inside Out

Peter Pál Pelbart, John Laudenberger, Felix Rebolledo Palazuelos

• Publisher: Univocal Publishing
• Year: 2016
• eBook ISBN: 9781937561789
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Philosophy History & Theory

In our current landscape of communicative and connective excess, a very novel contemporary exhaustion exacerbated by our relation to the postdigital terrain is ever present. The Brazilian philosopher and schizoanalyst Peter Pál Pelbart pushes the vital question of our nihililstic age to the limits: how can one learn to be left alone, live alone, and perhaps, by way of a Deleuzian “absolute solitude,” conjure a vitality for living again and, indeed, finding something truly “worthy of saying”? Through various poetic meanderings and meditations and building on the works of Blanchot, Musil, Guattari, and Delingy, among others, Pelbart reestablishes the possibility of fighting off the exhaustion of our current state of affairs. For Pelbart, we must chart the cartography of exhaustion as if it were a sort of molecular symptomology.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Quote
• Life, Body, Power
• How to Live Alone?
• The Body of the Formless
• Bare Life, Beastly Life, a Life
• Nihilism, Disaster, Community
• Crossing Nihilism
• Deleuze, Nihilism, Capitalism
• The Community of Those Who Do Not Have a Community
• Exhaustion, Madness, Outside
• Exhaustion and Creation
• Inhuman Polyphony in the Theater of Madness
• The Ueinzz Theater Company
• The Deterritorialized Unconscious
• The Thought of the Outside, the Outside of Thought
• Time, Experience, Desubjectivation
• Images of Time in Deleuze
• Experience and Abandon of the Self
• Subjectivation and Desubjectivation
• Afterword Title Page
• Afterword
• References