CRISIS Marcus Steinweg 1. If undecidability is a part of decision, as Jacques Derrida has shown, then this means for the subject of decision that it is a subject in the space of undecidability and also the subject of undecidability. 2. The question concerning this subject and its relation to other subjects would be the question concerning another or a new, displaced subject that does not have all the properties of the ‘classical’ transcendental subject. 3. For there to be decision the subject must not be a transcendental subject, a subject whose transcendental-ontological vocabulary (forms of intuition, categories, etc.) is already completely given. 4. The subject of deconstruction (which is therefore not called a ‘subject’) is an incomplete, unconcluded subject related to contingency and the unexpected. 5. This subject would be (for in a certain sense this subject does not exist) the subject of deconstruction. 6. It would be the subject and object of deconstruction, subject of self-deconstruction, subject of an inherent undecidability which represents the undecidability of the conflict of its self as the subject of decision with the undecidability of its objective situation. 7. The subject of decision loses itself as a subject in the space of undecidability. 8. It loses itself and it redefines itself; it reinvents itself with every decision. 9. The problem of decision cannot be postponed because decision as such demands its non-postponability. 10. Every postponable decision is not a decision. 11. The situation of decision is crisis. 12. Krisis is the Greek word for decision. 13. It also means ‘dispute’, ‘dilemma’, ‘divorce’, ‘crucial, decisive factor’, ‘judgement’, ‘response’. 14. The verb, krinein, means ‘to divorce’, ‘to differentiate’, ‘separate’, ‘select’, ‘favour’, ‘to prefer one thing to another’. 15. The crisis demands of the subject that it make a choice, that it privilege one of its options. 16. The subject comes under pressure. 17. It cannot leave everything as it was. 18. It has to accept responsibility. 19. It is now the subject of action instead of being only the representative of an opinion. 20. It can no longer keep on hiding in the space of discussion. 21. It has to step forth in order to be the subject of its decisions and actions. 22. The crisis is the decision and it is the situation which demands a decision. 23. The subject as subject is the subject of crisis. 24. It is in the midst of a situation calling for decisions.
Posted on: Thu, 29 May 2014 12:41:35 +0000
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