https://journals.tplondon.com/agonist/issue/feed The Agonist 2022-12-25T07:16:01+00:00 Rachel Roberts rar608@nyu.edu Open Journal Systems <p class="justify"><strong><em>The Agonist</em> </strong>is an journal dedicated to the investigation of Nietzsche’s works and his influences on contemporary culture in different fields such as arts, philosophy, religion, and science, to name only a few. In the spirit of his philosophical pursuit, the journal publishes essays within Nietzsche scholarship and beyond academia. The journal also examines Nietzsche’s relationship to figures from previous ages, as we have done in one of our issues entitled “Nietzsche in History.” Furthermore, Nietzsche continues to inspire many artistic, cultural, and intellectual movements. We explore his influences on such movements with authors who work in these areas, as we have done in the issue on Nietzsche and Trans- and Post-humanism. In addition to essays and book reviews, we also publish interviews and exegeses. We publish only previously unpublished materials. <em>The Agonist</em> is an international peer-reviewed journal, which is read all over the world. </p> <p class="justify"><em>The Agonist</em> is published by <a href="https://tplondon.com"><em>Transnational Press London</em></a> on behalf of the <a href="http://nietzschecircle.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Nietzsche Circle</em></a>. The journal is made available only through the modest subscription collections we receive from libraries and readers. If you believe in the mission of this journal, we kindly ask you to support us.</p> <p class="justify"><em>The Agonist</em> is published twice a year in May and December. </p> <p class="justify"><em>The Agonist</em> is indexed by <a href="http://kanalregister.hkdir.no/publiseringskanaler/erihplus/periodical/info?id=502116" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ERIH Plus</a> and <a href="https://ideas.repec.org/s/mig/agonjl.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">RePEc</a>. </p> <p class="m_4286799904046857366MsoNoSpacing"><strong>ISSN 2752-4132 (Print) </strong><strong>ISSN 2752-4140 (Online)</strong></p> https://journals.tplondon.com/agonist/article/view/2800 Nietzsche and Transhumanism: A Reassessment 2022-09-07T14:52:02+00:00 Brett Carollo brett_carollo@yahoo.com <p><em>This paper addresses the scholarly debate over Nietzsche’s relationship to transhumanism. Most writing on this topic has focused almost exclusively on whether or not Nietzsche’s thought is philosophically compatible with transhumanist philosophy. Because ideas are not always transmitted in philosophically cogent ways, this approach is inadequate to address the question of how Nietzsche may have influenced transhumanism. I propose replacing the current approach with a history of ideas approach that also tracks “para-philosophical” vectors of influence. Bringing to bear such an approach, I argue that Nietzsche was crucial in laying the groundwork for transhumanism. First, his rejection of Being, of a fixed ontological order, decisively undermined essentialist conceptions of human nature, opening the door to a radical refashioning of the human being such as that envisioned in the transhumanist “posthuman.” Second, Nietzsche’s superman and the transhumanist posthuman are instantiations of apotheosis, a perennial impulse toward self-divinization at the core of many mystical and esoteric systems. The superman represents the ideal of apotheosis filtered through Nietzsche’s materialism and his processual turn, and it is in this modified, post-Nietzschean form that the ideal passes to transhumanism. Finally, I demonstrate that Nietzsche’s thought is not as philosophically incompatible with transhumanism as some critics claim. </em></p> 2022-12-24T00:00:00+00:00 Copyright (c) 2022 Author, The Agonist, Transnational Press London https://journals.tplondon.com/agonist/article/view/2753 An event-without-witness: a Nietzschean theory of the digital will to power as the will to temporalize 2022-08-01T19:19:46+00:00 Talha İşsevenler talha141@gmail.com <p><em>This article offers a Nietzschean theory of digital will to power to conceptualize the temporality of social media feeds run by algorithms. Stylistic and methodological temporalities of Nietzsche are discussed as well as their influence in subsequent social theory of political technologies. The paradox of heavy investment in both subjective expression and nonhuman temporalization in social media milieus is addressed with the concept of an event-without-witness drawn from Nietzsche’s account of himself as the solitary thinker of catastrophe of nihilism and psychoanalytical and deconstructive literatures on the catastrophes of the 20th century. Nietzsche’s fundamental resistance to and fascination with the philosophical and cultural modes of mummyfication, i.e. eternalization as an expression of the will to power is used to think the will to power in the creative algorithmic temporalization of social interactions through the selection, distribution and serialization of data for social media feeds.</em></p> 2022-12-24T00:00:00+00:00 Copyright (c) 2022 Author, The Agonist, Transnational Press London https://journals.tplondon.com/agonist/article/view/2705 Nietzsche and Emerson on History 2022-07-05T17:55:37+00:00 Laura Langone ll544@cam.ac.uk <p><em>This paper aims to show how Nietzsche was influenced by Emerson in developing a conception of history as a set of values to be embodied in order to gain a deeper insight into the essence of reality. It is a conception that Nietzsche first expressed in his second Untimely Meditation, On the Uses and Disadvantages of History for Life (1874) and that fully developed in the period of his so-called “free spirit philosophy” (1878-1882). Firstly, I will briefly outline the relationship between Nietzsche and Emerson. Secondly, I will illustrate Emerson’s stance on history. Thirdly, I will show how Nietzsche drew from Emerson’s thought.</em></p> 2022-12-24T00:00:00+00:00 Copyright (c) 2022 Author, The Agonist, Transnational Press London https://journals.tplondon.com/agonist/article/view/2939 Front Matter 2022-12-25T07:16:01+00:00 2022-12-25T00:00:00+00:00 Copyright (c) 2022 Author, The Agonist, Transnational Press London