433
Views
1
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Research Articles

Writing subjectivity without subjecthood: the machinic unconscious of Nathalie Sarraute’s Tropisms

ORCID Icon & ORCID Icon
Pages 1403-1421 | Received 07 Apr 2021, Accepted 10 Feb 2022, Published online: 20 Apr 2022

References

  • Arendt, H. (1964). Nathalie Sarraute. New York Review of Books, March 5 11(2),5–6 nybooks.com/articles/1964/03/05/nathalie-sarraute
  • Barbour, S. (1993). Nathalie Sarraute and the feminist reader: Identities in process. Bucknell University Press.
  • Burdon, G. (2022). On being affected: Desire, passion, and the question of conatus after Spinoza and Deleuze. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Early View, 1, 13. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12526
  • Butler, J. (1997). The psychic life of power: Theories in subjection. Stanford University Press.
  • Cameron, E. (2012). New geographies of story and storytelling. Progress in Human Geography, 36(5), 573–592. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132511435000
  • Celis Bueno, C. (2020). The face revisited: Using Deleuze and Guattari to explore the politics of algorithmic face recognition. Theory Culture & Society, 37(1), 37–91. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276419867752
  • Debaise, D., & Keating, T. P. (2021). Speculative empiricism, nature and the question of predatory abstractions: A conversation with Didier Debaise. Theory, Culture & Society, 38(7–8), 309–323. https://doi.org/10.1177/02632764211052076
  • Deleuze, G. (1998). Essays Critical and Clinical ( D. W. Smith & M. A. Greco, Trans.).Verson. (Original Work Published 1993)
  • Deleuze, G. (2008). Proust and signs: The complete text. Continuum (R. Howard, Trans.). (Original Work Published 1964)
  • Deleuze, G., & Guattari, F. (1986). Kafka: Toward a minor literature. University of Minnesota Press ( D. Polan, Trans.). (Original Work Published 1975)
  • Deleuze, G., & Guattari, F. (1987). A thousand plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (B.Massumi, Trans.). University of Minnesota Press. (Original Work Published 1980)
  • Derrida, J. (1976). Of Grammatology (G. C. Spivak, trans.).Johns Hopkins University Press. (Original Work Published 1967).
  • Dewsbury, J. D. (2007). Unthinking subjects: Alain Badiou and the event of thought in thinking politics. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 32(4), 443–459. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-5661.2007.00271.x
  • Dewsbury, J. (2019). Refrains for lost time: Collapse, abstract, refrain. In T. Jellis, J. Gerlach, & J. Dewsbury (Eds.), Why Guattari? A liberation of cartographies, ecologies and politics (pp. 88–98). Routledge.
  • Doel, M. A., & Clarke, D. B. (2019). Through a net darkly: Spatial expression from glossematics to schizoanalysis. In T. Jellis, J. Gerlach, & J. D. Dewsbury (Eds.), Why Guattari? A liberation of cartographies, ecologies and politics (pp. 19–33). Routledge.
  • Foucault, M. (1982). The subject and power. Critical Inquiry, 8(4), 777–795. https://doi.org/10.1086/448181
  • Genosko, G. (2008). A-signifying Semiotics. Public Journal of Semiotics, 2(1), 11–21. https://doi.org/10.37693/pjos.2008.2.8822
  • Gerlach, J., & Jellis, T. (2015). Guattari: Impractical philosophy. Dialogues in Human Geography, 5(2), 131–148. https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820615587787
  • Grosz, E. A. (2008). Chaos, territory, art: Deleuze and the framing of the earth. Columbia University Press.
  • Guattari, F. (1995). Chaosmosis: An ethico-aesthetic paradigm (P. Bains, and J. Pefanis, Trans.). Power Publications. (Original Work Published 1992)
  • Guattari, F. (2000). The three ecologies ( I. Pindar & P. Sutton, Trans.).The Athlone Press. (Original Work Published 1989)
  • Guattari, F. (2009a). Chaosophy: Texts and interviews 1972-1977. (S. Lotringer, Ed.). Semiotext(e).
  • Guattari, F. (2009b). Soft subversions: Texts and interviews 1977-1985. (S. R. Lotringer, Ed.). Semiotext(e).
  • Guattari, F. (2011). The machinic unconscious: Essays in Schizoanalysis ( T. Adkins, Trans.).Semiotext(e). (Original Work Published 1979)
  • Guattari, F. (2013). Schizoanalytic cartographies ( A. Goffey, Trans.). Bloomsbury.
  • Guattari, F. (2015). Psychoanalysis and transversality: Texts and interviews 1955-1971 ( A. Hodges & R. Sheed, Trans.).Semiotext(e). (Original Work Published 1972)
  • Hones, S. (2008). Text as It Happens: Literary Geography. Geography Compass, 2(5), 1301–1317. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-8198.2008.00143.x
  • Hones, S. (2011). Literary geography: Setting and narrative space. Social & Cultural Geography, 12(7), 685–699. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2011.610233
  • Hones, S. (2018). Literary geography and spatial literary studies. Literary Geographies, 4(2), 146–149 https://www.literarygeographies.net/index.php/LitGeogs/article/view/151 .
  • Hynes, M., & Sharpe, S. (2021). Cosmic subjectivity: Guattari and the production of subjective cartographies. Area, 53(2), 311–317. https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12695
  • Jefferson, A. (1992). Materialism and the mind: Nathalie Sarraute. Romance Studies, 10(2), 31–43. https://doi.org/10.1179/ros.1992.10.2.31
  • Jefferson, A. (2020). Nathalie Sarraute: A life between. Princeton University Press.
  • Johnson, F. (2019). The writing-machine as method: Affect, Acker, and the traumatized subject. GeoHumanities, 5(1), 54–68. https://doi.org/10.1080/2373566X.2019.1586561
  • Kim, A. L. (2018). Unbecoming language: Anti-identitarian French feminist fictions. Ohio State University Press.
  • Lapworth, A. (2019). Guattari and the micropolitics of cinema. In T. Jellis, J. Gerlach, & J. Dewsbury (Eds.), Why Guattari? A liberation of cartographies, ecologies and politics (pp. 187–201). Routledge.
  • Lazzarato, M. (2014). Signs and machines: Capitalism and the production of subjectivity ( J. D. Jordan, Trans.). Semiotext(e).
  • MacLeavy, J., Fannin, M., & Larner, W. (2021). Feminism and futurity: Geographies of resistance, resilience and reworking. Progress in Human Geography, 45(6), 1558–1579. https://doi.org/10.1177/03091325211003327
  • McCormack, D. P. (2013). Refrains for moving bodies: Experience and experiment in affective spaces. Duke University Press.
  • Minor, A., & Brackenlidge, B. (1959). Nathalie Sarraute: Le Planétarium. Yale French Studies, 24(24), 96–100. https://doi.org/10.2307/2929309
  • Negrete, F. (2015). ‘A vital, unliveable force’: Rhythm through Nathalie Sarraute and Schizoanalysis. Mosaic: An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal, 48(2), 83–98. https://doi.org/10.1353/mos.2015.0019
  • Otto, B. D., & Strauß, A. (2019). The novel as affective site: Uncertain work as impasse in wait until Spring, Bandini. Organization Studies, 40(12), 1805–1822. https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840619874463
  • Pelbart, P. P. L. (2011). The deterritorialized unconscious. In E. Alliez & A. Goffey (Eds.), The Guattari effect (pp. 68–83). Continuum.
  • Phillips, T. (2013). Becoming fiction: Sarraute, Stein, Hemingway . In The subject of minimalism: On aesthetics, agency, and becoming ( Phillips, T. Ed.) (pp. 33–55). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137341020_3
  • Roberts, T. (2019). Writing. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 44(4), 644–646. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12323
  • Romanillos, J. L. (2008). “Outside, it is Snowing”: Experience and finitude in the nonrepresentational landscapes of Alain Robbe-Grillet. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 26(5), 795–822. https://doi.org/10.1068/d6207
  • Roudiez, L. (1961). A glance at the vocabulary of Nathalie Sarraute. Yale French Studies, 27(27), 90–98. https://doi.org/10.2307/2929324
  • Ruddick, S. (2017). Rethinking the subject, reimagining worlds. Dialogues in Human Geography, 7(2), 119–139. https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820617717847
  • Sarraute, N. (1958). Portrait of a man unknown ( M. Jolas, Trans.). George Brazziller. (Original Work Published 1948)
  • Sarraute, N. (1963). The age of suspicion (M.Jolas, Trans.). In Tropisms and the age of suspicion (pp. 57–136). Calder. (Original Work Published 1959)
  • Sarraute, N. (2015). Tropisms ( M. Jolas, Trans.). New Directions. (Original Work Published 1939)(Original Work Published 1939)
  • Sauvagnargues, A. (2016). Artmachines: Deleuze, Guattari, Simondon ( S. Verderber & E. W. Holland, Trans.). Edinburgh University Press.
  • Sauvagnargues, A. (2018). Proust according to Deleuze. An Ecology of Literature. La Deleuziana, 7, 1–26 http://www.ladeleuziana.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Sauvagnargues-eng.pdf.
  • Simone, A. M. (2019). Improvised lives: Rhythms of endurance in an Urban South. Polity.
  • Simpson, P. (2017). Spacing the subject: Thinking subjectivity after non-representational theory. Geography Compass, 11(12), 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1111/gec3.12347
  • Williams, N. (2021). Theorizing style (In three sketches). GeoHumanities, 7(1), 283–300. https://doi.org/10.1080/2373566X.2020.1798801
  • Williams, N. (2022). Waiting for geotropic forces: Bergsonian duration and the ecological sympathies of biodesign. Qualitative Inquiry, 107780042110658. https://doi.org/10.1177/10778004211065803.
  • Wylie, J. (2007). The spectral geographies of W. G. Sebald. Cultural Geographies, 14(2), 171–188. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474474007075353

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.