Anti-predicative recognition as improperty of self according to Michel de Certeau and Vladimir Safatle

Abstract

The article deal with the anti-predicative recognition proposed by Vladimir Safatle in O circuito dos afetos (2015). To illustrate this process, we start from Michel de Certeau’s analysis, in A fábula mística (2015), of the storie of liminal inversion of the father figure of the abbot Pitéroum before the nun Salê, someone “without a name” and a worker in the kitchen of a monastery of 400 sisters who look down on her. Salê’s simulated madness signals the impropriety of oneself as the key to a recognition distinct from that of the contract and linked to a bourgeois logic of capitalist production. In a second moment of the text, the impropriety of oneself in the crowd transcends the identity mark of difference through a public and common body, associated with the proletariat as a conceptual synthesis of the social scum of madmen, vagabonds, bohemians, etc.