subiect al subiectului modern (aøa cum a øtiut a ni-l înfæfliøa în amænunt, exhaustiv,toatæ filosofia modernæ).Ceea ce iese continuu la ivealæ de aici – øi chiar asta se reproduce socialmente– este, prin urmare, ceva descriptibil la propriu ca o manieræ egoistæde însuøire, pe fondul rezultatelor de societate generate prin suveranitateaautotelicæ a miøcærii emancipatoare, a beneficiilor ei prelevabile individual(bunæoaræ, toate „libertæflile“ øi licenflele de tot felul pe care adultul de aziøi le acordæ în cæutarea „fericirii personale“). O privatizare a emancipærii care,inevitabil, e pentru omul de masæ al modernitæflii noastre mature – reprezentantal acestei umanitæfli a subiectivitæflii plastice, proteice, neîngrædite nici mæcarde ea însæøi øi pe care n-o moøteneøte de la nimeni – totodatæ un fel de ase dezasuma (cît priveøte, de exemplu, conflinutul generic al misiunii de emanciparepe care i-o încredinflau Luminile, matricea modernitæflii), dar færæ catotuøi asta sæ-l scoatæ de pe fægaøul deja trasat al propriei subiectiværi. E maidegrabæ un fenomen de dezinvestire (cu contrapartea sa de repliere pe„sinele personal“) din tot ceea ce depæøeøte prea mult sfera vieflii sale cotidiene(cu activitæflile, relafliile umane øi preocupærile acesteia), ca øi din dimensiuneaveritabilæ a solidaritæflii cu semenii; nu atît pe linia comunitæfliinaturale sau a celei spiritual- ori moral/afectiv-organice (dimpotrivæ, solidaritæflilede trib, pe de-o parte, iar pe de alta ligi, cluburi, asociaflii, partide,grupuri de interese, ONG-uri – toate asocieri în jurul cîte unui interes particular– sînt cît se poate de vii), cît pe aliniamentul unei aceleiaøi griji purtateîn comun – o grijæ nu identicæ, ci de împærtæøit în feluri numeroase –pentru coabitarea, la acelaøi ceas istorial, a sensului existenflei proprii (modurilede partaj nu sînt numærabile, nu sînt epuizabile într-o listæ, cæci ele ar fitot atîtea cîte felurile posibile de comuniune liberæ, de aflat sau de cæutat,pe diversele meridiane ale solidaritæflii de existenflæ) 7 ; în acest sens, ar fi vorbadespre o desocializare, într-un sens esenflial, doar aparent paradoxalæ în niøtevremuri cînd expunerea indivizilor la comunicare, la circulaflie (a lor øi a informafliei),în fine la sociabilitate („în reflea“) øi la „socializare“ (de citit în sensulamerican al vocabulei) e mai intensæ ca oricînd. Dar asta merge mînæ în mînæ,bunæoaræ, cu tendinfla cæreia individul nu i se poate opune de unul singur,nici dacæ ar vrea, de a abandona tot ceea ce, pe calea „liberei realizæri desine“, resimte ca balast – moral, relaflional, afectiv, practic – flinînd de o stare(væzutæ ca) revolutæ a apartenenflelor sale (familiale în sens larg, deci øi restrîns,de grup social etc.).În sfîrøit, bilanflul naøterii øi generalizærii acestui tip de subiectivitate hipertrofiatæ,cotropitoare, dar totodatæ atît de puflin generos deschisæ înspre lumeøi ceilalfli în focalizarea ei pe cercul strîmt al vieflii personale a omului actual,a cærui umanitate o ilustreazæ, mai poate fi indicat øi într-un alt fel: prin evidenfliereaei în diseminarea ubicuæ a efectelor sale monotone pe suprafaflaraporturilor sociale – la interfafla lor. Condiflia pentru ca aceastæ percepfliesæ izbuteascæ e una simplæ. Sæ admitem cæ aøa sîntem noi înøine, fiecare,pentru a ne putea astfel recunoaøte în reflexia pe care ne-o întoarce (maioricare) „celælalt“ în practicile noastre de relaflie. Prin chiar ceea ce ne-ar „diferenflia“la nesfîrøit øi ne-ar diversifica într-o puzderie de profiluri individualizate,idiosincratice, pretins ireplicabile, sæ (admitem sæ) vedem cum sîntem„profund“ asemænætori într-o privinflæ crucialæ. Aceea care face ca sæ nu fie,de fapt, vorba decît de miriadele de versiuni ale unuia øi aceluiaøi exemplarde interioritate subiectivæ; de acelaøi subiect supus – subjugat – efectelorcumulative ale aceluiaøi proces de subiectivare, cel care ne face sæ øtim omologatot mai puflin laturile multiple ale existenflei, profuziunea ei, altfel decît dupæerences transitive to anything else but itself – the “egotistic” way of beinga subject of the modern subject (as all modern philosophy presented to us indetail, exhaustively).What keeps emerging from this – i.e. what is socially reproducible, precisely –may, therefore, be literally described as an egoistic way of appropriating, onthe background of the societal results generated by the autotelic sovereigntyof the emancipatory movement, of its benefits, individually deductible (like allkinds of “liberties” and licenses which the adult of today allows himself in thepursuit of “personal happiness”). A privatisation of emancipation which,inevitably, for the mass man of our mature modernity – representative of thishumanity of the plastic, protean, subjectivity, constrained not even by itselfand inherited from no one – is a way of des-assuming, as well (in regard, forexample, to the generic content of the emancipation mission assigned by theEnlightenment, modernity’s matrix), without getting him out of the alreadydrawn path of his own subjectivation. It’s rather a phenomenon of des-investing(with its counterpart, the retreat on “personal self”) from all that falls outsidehis everyday life (with its activities, human relations and concerns),as well as from the genuine dimension of the solidarity with his fellow humans;not so much in the line of natural or spiritual- or moral/afective-organic community(on the contrary, tribe solidarities, on the one hand, and leagues,clubs, associations, parties, groups of interest, NGOs – all which are associationsaround a particular interest – are as lively as possible), but in the lineof the same commonly taken care – not identical, but to be shared in variousways – for the cohabitation at the same histori(c)al hour of his own existence’ssense (the partake kinds cannot be counted, cannot be erased from a list,because they are as many as the possible ways of free communion, to befound or looked for, on the various meridians of the existence solidarity) 7 ;in this respect, it would be a de-socialisation, in an essential sense, onlyapparently paradoxical in such times like ours, when the individuals are moreexposed than ever to communication, to circulation (of theirs and of in<strong>format</strong>ion)and, finally, to sociability (“networking”) and to “socialization” (in theAmerican sense of the word). But this goes hand in hand, for instance, witha tendency which the individual cannot resist by himself, neither if he wantsto, of abandoning everything that, on his way to “self-realisation”, he considersto be a – moral, relational, affective, practical – ballast, belonging toa state of his affiliations (familiar – broadly speaking, and at the same timerestricted, of social group, etc.) (regarded as) past.Finally, the summing-up made for the birth and the generalisation of this kindof hypertrophic subjectivity, invasive, but, at the same time, so little generouslyopen to the world and the others while focusing on the narrow circle of thepresent man’s personal life, whose humanity it illustrates, may be indicatedin another way, too: by emphasising it in the ubiquitous dissemination of itsmonotone effects on the surface of the social relations – at their interface.The request for the success of this perception is very simple. Let’s admit thatthis is how we ourselves are, each and everyone, in order to be able to recognizeourselves in the reflection returned by (almost every) “other” one in ourrelation-related practices. By the very thing that could endlessly “differentiate”us and diversify us in a lot of individualized, idiosyncratic, allegedly notreplicable profiles, to (allow to) see how much, how “deeply” we are alike ina crucial aspect. It’s all about the myriad versions of the same copy of subjectiveinteriority; about the same subject subjected – subdued – to the cumulativeeffects of the same process of subjectivation, that which allows us tohomologate ever lesser the unnumberable sides of existence, its profusion,in other way than with respect to the cogito rank attained by ante-predicative112
+ (copii abandonafli. pærinfli în abandon)rangul de cogito pe care îl capætæ judecæfli antepredicative de genul (øiforma): „aøa îmi place mie“, „(eu) cred cæ“, „(eu) flin morfliø sæ“, „(asta) vreaueu“, „îmi trebuie (neapærat) øi mie“, „pærerea mea e“, „aøa sînt (eu)“ ø.a.m.d.Øi cum acest tipar de subiectivare e ceea ce se reproduce pe scaræ largæprin toate modurile øi canalele de comunicaflie ale societæflii cu ea însæøi, petoate cæile de modelare (de programare) a membrilor sæi, ce altceva amputea transmite, la rîndu-ne, copiilor noøtri ca sæ perpetueze (sæ întæreascæ,sæ agraveze) øi ei pe mai departe? Nu înainte, bineînfleles, ca ei sæ ne prezinte,la termen, nota de platæ.Ceea ce bilanflul acesta poate înfæfliøa ca straniu øi neliniøtitor (subiectivareaextremæ dimpreunæ cu asocialitatea aferentæ øi caracterul ei agenealogic) ebine disimulat deja în figurile familiare ale normalitæflii comportamentelor însocietæflile modern-contemporane, iar el e acoperit, cît priveøte randamentul,în beneficiile pragmatice pe care ni le procuræ.Nu numai cæ bucuriile øi izbînzile noastre etice, atunci cînd sînt aøa ceva,nu au alt resort (de vreme ce tocmai aøa se atestæ chiar suveranitatea, cumnu se poate mai raflionalæ, a voinflei noastre finite asupra ei înseøi – rafliuneapracticæ nu are alt conflinut 8 ), ci înseøi juisærile noastre fundamentale nu sînt,pînæ la urmæ, în diverse feluri, decît scurtcircuitæri compensatorii, descærcæriprin care consumæm, pentru a-l relansa iar øi iar, din tonusul anxiogenal satisfacfliei – de existenflæ, s-o spun din nou – cu care aderæm la condiflianoastræ simultan orfanæ øi adultæ (orfanæ, pentru cæ a priori adultæ, prin necesitateade epocæ evocatæ). Asta se verificæ zi de zi, de pildæ, în cazul plæcerilor(øi, mai ales, al „viciilor“) noastre; fie cæ e vorba de cele triviale,împærtæøite øi încurajate de moravurile noastre puflin austere øi alergice ladædæcealæ, fie de cele mai idiosincratice, solitare, însæ destul de uniforme(de la cele inavuabile, „blestemate“, la cele doar „perverse“). 9 Ele maitoate ajung sæ aibæ curs (iar inconøtientului nostru îi place aøa) fiind decisivincitate, hrænite fantasmatic øi/sau mimetic, de mecanismele culturale dedopare indefinitæ, în masæ, a dorinflei (nu øi ale satisfacerii ei) – mecanismede conivenflæ cu moravurile „blînde“ øi cu ideologiile soft ale „stilærii“ personalistea cotidianului, însæ nu mai puflin viguros susflinute (plætite, deci cumpærate)de o atotputernicæ economie a unei supraabundenfle productive ceforfleazæ cu orice chip consumul. 10 (O abundenflæ menitæ riguros hiperconsumului,ca factor economic programat(ic) în relansarea ciclurilor productive,nu øi „epuizærii“ ei, trecerii ei în „valoarea de întrebuinflare“ ori, mai ræu,refuzului; categoriile penuriei, ale precaritæflii ori ale sobrietæflii au devenitîn timp tabu, stigmatizante, ruøinoase, iar realitatea ce le-ar corespunde –insuportabilæ; aøa cum, de cealaltæ parte, consumul ca puræ cheltuire, ca prædarejubilatorie de resurse øi bunuri e socotit anomic: un comportamentprostesc, nebunesc ori, dimpotrivæ, subversiv.) Or, dincolo de infrastructuraeconomico-tehnologicæ – la drept vorbind, de esenfla ecotehnicæ 11 (Gestell)– a acestor mecanisme, de maniera instalærii lor concentrice, compacte,tot mai insidioasæ, la orizonturile cele mai proxime øi mai ambigue ale nevoilornoastre (øi astfel tot mai dificil de sesizat din chiar miezul desfætærilor pe careni le procuræ) – deh, liberalitate hedonistæ, precum øi larghefle cinicæ a negustoruluicare nu impune clientului nimic, de vreme ce øtie cæ fondul sæude comerfl îi poate satisface orice fantezie, orice „alegere“ (tot atîtea fafleteale omniprezentei injoncfliuni de-a fi adult...) –, regula proceduralæ pusæ lalucru de ele e cît se poate de simplæ. Ele nu înceteazæ sæ ne solicite, sæ neseducæ (dorinflele reale, închipuite – granifla între ele e oricum ambiguæ) øisæ ne flateze ca adulfli decît pentru a ne face sæ regresæm mai lin, mai færæpropositions such as: “that’s the (only) way I like it”, “that’s what I think”,“I believe that”, “I want (or must have) that, too”, “ in my opinion”, “that’show I am”, and so forth. And as this pattern is reproduced at a large scaleon every of the society’s ways and channels of communication with itself,on every way of shaping (and programming) of its members, we cannot butteach our children to perpetuate (to empower, to aggravate) this further on.Not before, of course, they present us the bill, right on time.What may seem strange and disquieting in this review (the extreme subjectivationalong with its a-sociality and its a-genealogical character) is alreadywell dissembled in the familiar figures of normal behaviours in our moderncontemporarysocieties, and it is covered, with respect to the efficiency, in thepragmatic advantages it supplies us with.Not only that our ethical joys and triumphs, when they are so, don’t haveanother reason (inasmuch as that’s exactly how sovereignty itself, as rationalas it can be, of our finite will over ourselves is certified – the practical reasondoesn’t have another content 8 ), but our fundamental enjoyments (jouissances)themselves are, in the end, nothing but manifold compensatory short-circuits,discharges by which we consume, in order to reload it over and over again,from the anxiogenic tonus of the satisfaction – let me say it again, of existence– through which we adhere to our condition, simultaneously adult and orphan(orphan because it is a priori adult, through the evoked epoch necessity).This fact verifies everyday with our pleasures (and especially with our “vices”);either the trivial ones, shared and encouraged by our habits – so little austere,but allergic to jawing –, or the more idiosyncratic ones, the solitary, but prettyuniform ones (from the undisclosable, “damned” ones, to those just “pervert”).9 They all happen (and our unconscious loves this) as they are decisivelyincited, fed, in a phantasmal and/or mimetic manner, by the cultural mechanismsmeant for an indefinite and massive doping of desire (and not for satisfyingit) – mechanisms which are on connivance with the “gentle” mores andthe soft ideologies of the personalist “styling” of the quotidian, but no less vigorouslysupported by an all-powerful economy of productive superabundancewhich forces the consumption at any rate. 10 (An abundance rigorously meantfor hyper-consumption, as an economic factor in the renewal of the productivecycles, and not to its “exhaustion”, to its becoming a “use value” or, evenworse, to be refused; in time, such categories as penury, neediness or sobrietyhave become taboo, stigmatizing, shameful, and their correspondent reality– insupportable; just like, on the other side, the consumption as pure spending,as jubilatory waste of resources and goods, is thought to be anomic: afoolish, crazy or, on the contrary, a subversive behaviour). Or, beyond the economical-technologicalinfrastructure of these mechanisms (in fact, their ecotechnicalessence 11 (Gestell), beyond their concentric, compact, ever moreinsidious establishment, at the most proximal and ambiguous horizons of ourneeds (and thus even more difficult to observe from the very core of the pleasuresprocured for us) – well, hedonistic liberalism, as well as cynical largess ofthe merchant who forces nothing upon the client, as long as he knows that hisstock-in-trade can satisfy any of the client’s fancy, any “choice” (as manyfacets of the omnipresent injunction of being an adult...) –, the procedural rulethey apply is as simple as possible. They don’t cease to solicit, to seduce us(our real and/or imagined desires – the border between them is ambiguous,anyway) and flatter us as adults in order to make us regress smoother, withlesser reserves and guilt, with our full approval, to an infantile “stage”. 12A “stage” which is not at all one (as the analogy with the psychoanalysis lexiswould suggest), because it is the very assumed finality of our most serious andpossessive occupations. In fact, it’s just the other side, the current and mani-113
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