References for Theme: The Creation of the World
- Nancy, Jean-Luc
- The Creation of the World, Or, Globalization (2007)
(p.36) globalization makes world-forming possible, by way of a reversal of global domination consisting in the extortion of work, that is, of its value. therefore of value, absolutely.
- The Creation of the World, Or, Globalization (2007)
(p.39) Absolute value is, in fact, humanity incorporated in the product through work as human work. It is thus humanity producing itself by producing objects (or, I will return to this, creating itself by producing). But what is humanity? What is the world as the product of human beings, and what is the human being insofar as it is in the world and as it work this world? What is the "spiritual richness" of which Marx speaks, which is nothing other than the value or meaning of human labor as human, that is to say, also, "free," but free to the...
- The Creation of the World, Or, Globalization (2007)
(p.54) In excess or in deficiency with respect to its work does not mean outside of all labor, but means a labor whose principle is not determined by a goal of mastery (domination, usefulness, appropriation), but exceeds all submission to an end-that is, also exposes itself to remaining without end. Here it is art that indicates the stakes: the work of art is always also a meaning at work beyond the work […], as well as a work working and opening beyond any meaning that is either given or to be given. But the opening with-out finality is never a work...
- The Creation of the World, Or, Globalization (2007)
(p.89) One could also consider--and I cannot dwell on it as would be necessary - the possibility. indeed the necessity of determining the history of technologies up to our time without giving it another meaning in its fundamental contingency than the indefinite relation of technology to itself and to the escape of its denaturation. One would have to examine, in this respect. the succession of technologies of the immediate supplementation of the human body (tools, arms. clothing), of the production of subsistence (agriculture, animal husbandry). of exchange (money, writing). then. with another turn, of meaning and truth (sophistical, philosophical), of wealth...
- The Creation of the World, Or, Globalization (2007)
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