Surpassing Ecstasy, Infinite Enthusiasm

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I am very greatful to Scott Sharpe, Lone Bertelsen, David Bissell and Francesco Ventrella for their comments on earlier drafts of the paper.

¹ Teresa of Avila, The Book of My Life [c. 1567], trans. Kieran Kavanaugh and Otilio Rodriguez. (Indianapolis: Hackett, 2008) Chapter XXIX; Part 17

² Anthony Ashley Cooper Earl of Shaftesbury, ‘A letter concerning Enthusiasm’ [1708], cited in Tim Clark, The Theory of inspiration: composition as a crisis of subjectivity in romantic and post-romantic writing, (Manchester: Manchester University, 2001), p.69.

³ Georges Bataille, ‘Hegel, Death and Sacrifice’, Yale French Studies 78 (1990), pp.9-28.

⁴ Georges Bataille, Eroticism [1957], trans. Mary Dalwood, (London: Marion Boyars, 2006), p.11.

⁵ Georges Bataille, Eroticism, p.15.

⁶ Georges Bataille, Eroticism, p.15.

⁷ Georges Bataille, Eroticism, p.12.

⁸ This is a point that Foucault summarizes well in his homage to Bataille. See Michel Foucault, Language, counter-memory, practice: Selected essays and interviews, (Ithaca: Cornell University, 1977), p.32.

⁹ Georges Bataille, Eroticism, p.13.

¹⁰ Jean-Luc Nancy, Inoperative Community, ed. Peter Connor, trans. Peter Connor, Lisa Garbus, Michael Holland and Simona Sawhney (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1991).

¹¹ Jean-Luc Nancy, Inoperative Community, p.22.

¹² Jean-Luc Nancy, Inoperative Community, p.22.

¹³ Georges Bataille, Eroticism, p.11.

¹⁴ Andrew Norris, ‘Jean-Luc Nancy and the Myth of the Common’, Constellations 7: 2 (2000), p.274

¹⁵ Peter Connor, Preface, Inoperative Community, p.xxxviii.

¹⁶ Jean-Luc Nancy, Inoperative Community, p.5.

¹⁷ Brenda Machosky, ‘A Poetics at the Limit of the Subject: Nancy's Philosophy of Singular Being in Conrad's “The Secret Sharer”’, E-rea. Revue électronique d'études sur le monde Anglophone 2:2 (2004), p.115. < http://erea.revues.org/447> [11/1/2011].

¹⁸ Jean-Luc Nancy, Inoperative Community, p.6.

¹⁹ Christopher Branson, ‘Review of “After Nietzsche: Notes Towards a Philosophy of Ecstasy”’, The Agonist, 3: 2 (2008), p.35.

²⁰ Jean-Luc Nancy, Inoperative Community, p.129.

²¹ Jean-Luc Nancy, Inoperative Community, p.137.

²² Peter Connor, Preface, Inoperative Community p.xiii

²³ Daniel Smith, ‘Introduction’ in Gilles Deleuze, Essays Critical and Clinical, trans. Daniel W. Smith and William Greco, (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997), p.xiii.

²⁴ Gilles Deleuze cited in Daniel Smith, ‘Introduction’, p.xiii-xiv.

²⁵ Gilles Deleuze, Foucault, trans. Sean Hand (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1988), p.131.

²⁶ Alberto Toscano, Fanaticism. On the Uses of an Idea (New York: Verso, 2010), p.112.

²⁷ Timothy Clark, The Theory of Inspiration: composition as a crisis of subjectivity in romantic and post-romantic writing, (Manchester: Manchester University, 2001), p.65

²⁸ See Susie L. Tucker, Enthusiasm: A Study in Semantic Change, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972).

²⁹ Timothy Clark, The Theory of Inspiration, p.65.

³⁰ Alberto Toscano, Fanaticism, p.xv

³¹ Denis Diderot cited in Timothy Clark, The Theory of Inspiration, p.64.

³² Timothy Clark, The Theory of Inspiration, p.63.

³³ Immanuel Kant, Critique of Judgement [1790], trans. Werner S. Pluhar (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1987), §272 p.132.

³⁴ David Carroll, ‘Rephrasing the Political with Kant and Lyotard: From Aesthetic to Political Judgments’, Diacritics 14:3 (1984), pp.74-88.

³⁵ David Carroll, ‘Rephrasing the Political with Kant and Lyotard’, p.83

³⁶ Jean-François Lyotard, Enthusiasm: the Kantian critique of history, trans. George Van Den Abbeele (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009), p.31.

³⁷ Immanuel Kant, Critique of Judgement, §253 p.110.

³⁸ Jean-Francois Lyotard, Enthusiasm, p. 63-64.

³⁹ The work of Brian Massumi is especially notable for its extension of Deleuze's reading of Spinoza. See especially Brian Massumi, Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation, (Durham & London: Duke University Press 2002).

⁴⁰ Maria Hynes & Scott Sharpe, ‘Affected With Joy: Evaluating the Mass Actions of the Anti-Globalisation Movement’, Borderlands e-journal, 8: 3, (2009). See also David Bissell & Gillian Fuller (eds), Stillness in a Mobile World, (London & NY: Routledge 2011) and Lone Bertelsen and Andrew Murphie in Melissa Gregg & Greg Seigworth, The Affect Reader (Durham & London: Duke University Press 2010).

⁴¹ Shaftesbury, cited by Tim Clark, The Theory of Inspiration, p. 69.

⁴² Timothy Clark, The Theory of Inspiration, p. 63.

⁴³ The difficulty of thinking the political potentials of enthusiasm without positing a subject of enthusiasm is evident in the work of Hardt and Negri, in which the multitude ultimately functions as the new subject of revolution. See Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire, (New York: Penguin, 2005).

⁴⁴ Keith Ansell Pearson, ‘Pure Reserve: Deleuze, Philosophy, and Immanence’ in Deleuze and Religion, ed. Mary Bryden (London, Routledge, 2001), p.147.

⁴⁵ Stamatia Portanova, ‘Infinity in a Step’, Inflexions 1:1 (2008), p.7.

⁴⁶ See Gilles Deleuze. The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press 1993).

⁴⁷ Stamatia Portanova, ‘Infinity in a Step’, pp.1-15.

⁴⁸ Jean-Luc Nancy, Inoperative Community, p.137.

⁴⁹ Catherine Dale, ‘Knowing one's Enemy’ in Deleuze and Religion, p.126.

⁵⁰ Catherine Dale, ‘Knowing one's Enemy’, p.129.

⁵¹ Peter Connor, ‘Preface’, in Jean-Luc Nancy, Inoperative Community, p.xiv.

⁵² I am grateful to Scott Sharpe for this insight. Scott Sharpe, A Geography of the Fold. Unpublished PhD thesis, Department of Human Geography, Macquarie University, Australia (2002).

⁵³ Karim Benammar ‘Absences of Community’ in Eleanor Godway and Geraldine Finn, eds, Who is this ‘we’: Absences of Community? (Montreal, Canada: Black Rose Books, 1994), p.35.

⁵⁴ Gilles Deleuze, Who Comes After the Subject?, Eduardo Cadava, Peter Connor and Jean-Luc Nancy, eds (New York: Routledge, 1991), p.94.