O'Donnell, Aislinn
(2017)
Shame Is Already a Revolution:
The Politics of Affect in the
Thought of Gilles Deleuze.
Deleuze Studies, 11 (1).
pp. 1-24.
ISSN 1750-2241
Abstract
The concept of shame is important for Deleuze’s ethics and politics.
In this essay, shame is positioned within a nexus of concepts: the
intolerable, seeing, resistance, powerlessness, and belief in this world.
If one has fallen short, it is not because of who one is, how one is seen,
or how one has been judged, but it is, in part, because of one’s failure to
see what is intolerable. In this respect, shame, in particular ‘the shame
of the world’, has the potential to be a proto-political and proto-ethical
affect because it suspends and precludes the ready invocation of clichés
and explanations that buttress us against reality. This disruption in turn
opens a space for creativity and resistance.
| Item Type: |
Article
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| Keywords: |
shame; Gilles Deleuze; resistance; indifference; intolerable;
Primo Levi; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Social Sciences > Education |
| Item ID: |
11418 |
| Identification Number: |
https://doi.org/10.3366/dls.2017.0249 |
| Depositing User: |
Prof Aislinn O'Donnell
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| Date Deposited: |
23 Oct 2019 17:03 |
| Journal or Publication Title: |
Deleuze Studies |
| Publisher: |
Edinburgh University Press |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
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