| Title | The Rope-Dancer’s Fall |
|---|---|
| Subtitle | “Going Under” as Undergoing Nietzscheo-Simondonian Transindividuation |
| Contributor | Sarah Choukah (author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0149.1.13 |
| Landing page | https://punctumbooks.com/titles/digital-dionysus/ |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Choukah, Sarah |
| Publisher | punctum books |
| Published on | 2016-09-12 |
| Long abstract | I initially marveled at Simondon’s exemplification of transindi-viduation through Zarathustra’s experience of the rope-dancer’s death in Also Sprach Zarathustra. Transindividuation — a being’s passage from psychic to collective existence — operates through affects and emotions that express a lack, a void, a gap in the fabric of its interrelation with others. A prior state of things having seemingly little to do with the end result is necessary for collective modes of existence to emerge. The perspective is so-bering, especially in comparison with an overoptimistic but all too common view of the formation of networked collectivities. Such contemporary ideologies of the good tell us innate proper-ties of contemporary information networks improve knowledge production and sharing, communication, and, by implication, human culture. |
| Page range | pp. 184–195 |
| Print length | 12 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |