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Mastering Humans: Thinking (and) Slavery in the Age of Efficiency

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Uściński P.
Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies
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2024
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vol. 33(3)
117-136
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Taking as a starting point William Blake’s indictment of the enslaving powers of militarism, the article looks at different conceptions of mastery, chiefly in the work of Friedrich Nietzsche and Martin Heidegger, also referring to Blake’s poetry and the literary figures of Hamlet and Robinson Crusoe. Nietzsche’s critique of slave morality and Heidegger’s analysis of the metaphysics of the will to power reveal a number of contradictions inherent in the concept of mastery, including the disavowal of bodily vulnerabilities and ecological interdependences. What Heidegger sees as the modern project of “absolute humanisation” is thus read alongside the posthumanist critique of human domination, including domination over nature, in the work of Claire Colebrook, Timothy Morton and Jean-Luc Nancy, among others. Such constructions of mastery tend to also erase their dependence on the exploitation of labour, including the toil of the slaves and women. What posthumanist critique appears to aim at is a shift from the rationality of pure reason to the relationality of earthly cohabitation, which calls for a relinquishing of mastery for an openness to uncertainty and vulnerability.
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Introduction

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Pantuchowicz A., Uściński P.
Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies
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2024
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vol. 33(3)
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