Infrapolitics and Experience beyond the Fetishism of Left-Wing Melancholia: On Reading Eduardo Ruiz Sosa’s Anatomía de la memoria

Abstract

Enzo Traverso’s Left-Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History, and Memory revisits the question of the historical Left’s increasingly restricted horizon of expectations framing it as a symptom of the contemporary politics of emancipation’s melancholic libido. In contrast, the current essay argues that the discussion regarding left-wing melancholia is predetermined by the modern epoch of subjectivity and the Enlightenment metaphysics of humanism that gives rise to it. It falls short of fully determining what the actual matter for thinking is at this time, which is the end of epochality in the context of a left-wing misapprehension of existence and care for being.