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The other side...?

Almost two years ago, New Lacanian Field Austria – Initiative Vienna presented the German translation of Éric Laurent's The other side of Biopolitics – a writing for Jouissance. Since the evening Éric Laurent came to Vienna and worked with us, the biopolitical situation has radically changed. The name Corona has inscribed itself as a new marker on the speaking body. The Other, says Jacques-Alain Miller, is ultimately the body made to inscribe something.

A body event.

The speaking body, after all, bears witness to the fact that discourse inscribes itself on it as a social bond. The speaking body is a "socialized body" [1]

Eric Laurent writes: "The naming of new categories of disease patterns and patient groups is one of the competences of state biopolitics, which has the legal monopoly on the recognition of disorders of the suffering body. The social designations of what makes the body a victim bring to bear the beyond of the individual and must not be brought down to a personal meaning of enjoyment." [2]

And the other side…?

by Markus Zöchmeister

[1] Éric Laurent (2019): Die Kehrseite der Biopolitik. Eine Schrift für das Genießen. Wien-Berlin: Turia + Kant. S. 275. [transl. to English by SB]

[2] ebenda, S. 277.

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