Uvodnik: Ponosna nepismenost: ali Read My Desire, še enkrat

Abstract

This article is the editorial introduction to a special issue of Filozofski Vestnik dedicated to Joan Copjec’s 1994 book Read My Desire: Lacan Against the Historicists. It proposes that an enduring resistance to Copjec’s insights across the theoretical humanities must be understood as a symptom of the radical shift in thinking the book provokes, disguised as a proud defense of the illiteracy of desire Copjec indicts. Tracking this proud illiteracy to its origins in the intellectual fallout from the 1968 student revolts in Paris, the author argues that returning to Read My Desire now, thirty years since its initial publication, can inform an engagement with student radicalism, and youth in revolt more generally, that is ethically responsive to the political and social exigencies of the present. The article concludes with a summary of the issue’s other contributions and the ways in which they each introduce novel readings of Read My Desire that demonstrate the book’s lasting impact and reiterate its still-unread potentialČlanek je uvodni uredniški prispevek k posebni številki revije Filozofski Vestnik, posvečeni knjigi Joan Copjec iz leta 1994 z naslovom Read My Desire: Lacan Against the Historicists. V njem avtor predlaga, da je treba vztrajno nasprotovanje Copjecinim uvidom, ki ga lahko opazimo na področju teoretske humanistike, razumeti kot simptom radikalne spremembe v mišljenju, ki jo knjiga sproža, ta simptom pa je zakamufliran v ponosno zagovarjanje nepismenosti želje, kar Copjec kritizira. Avtor sledi tej ponosni nepismenosti do njenih izvorov v intelektualnih posledicah študentskih uporov v Parizu leta 1968 in trdi, da lahko vrnitev k Read My Desire zdaj, trideset let po njeni prvi izdaji, nekaj pove o študentskem radikalizmu in uporni mladini na splošno, na način, ki se etično odziva na politične in družbene zahteve sedanjosti. Članek se zaključi s povzetkom drugih prispevkov v tej številki in načinov, na katere vsak od njih uvaja nove interpretacije Read My Desire, ki dokazujejo trajen vpliv knjige in ponovno poudarjajo njen še neizkoriščen potencial