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transcendental empiricism. She still employs an affirmative philosophy, but her concepts of the
unsustainability of bodies and the way that the event renders them imperceptible makes this
posthuman approach a little bit closer to avulsion's denegation. Therefore, I analyze these
concepts and apply them to my creatio-amnesiac process.
Braidotti's work on transposition helps to provide an understanding of what occurs to the
parts of the denegated body. In her work on a Deleuzean, posthuman ethics, she develops an
understanding of a subject that is co-consisted through a multiplicity of agencies (non-unitary)
and nomadic, defined as a system-countering agency of affectivity and affirmation. 172 Her work
on a non-unitary, nomadic agency centers on an unusual conception of sustainability, one that is
very revealing when applied to the avulsive process. For Braidotti, sustainability is about
affirmation; it is the turning of negative forces into positive ones. In this way, sustainability also
means a strengthening of relations to expand the scope of subjectivity's non-unitary agency into
the future173. Unsustainability, in contrast, pertains to the breaking down of relations and the
breaking apart of the multiplicity of the subject. Braidotti views the negative as a "crack" across
the multiplicity of the non-unitary subject's network of relations. When operating in a
sustainably way, the relations that constitute the subject are strengthened and affirmed; they
endure and allow for future development. Unsustainability is when the non-unitary subject is
unable to transpose negative forces into positive relations and, therefore, does not allow for their
future development.'74
Braidotti's notion of becoming is always in a dynamic state, never reaching the stable
point of being. What is left is an assemblage of becoming along the forces of intensity.
172 Rosi Braidotti, Transpositions: On Nomadic Ethics, (Malden, MA, Polity, 2006): 4.
173 Ibid., 208.
174 Ibid., 208/9.85
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