Subjectivation as Intussusception. With Adorno and Chaplin at a Party in Malibu

The article explores a scene of subjectivation recounted by Theodor W. Adorno (and later by Jurgen Habermas). Adorno sketches a double portrait of himself and Charlie Chaplin in order to both critizise European middle-class forms of subjectformation and to reflect on fragile ways of becoming subject after WWII. I use Marcel Jousse’s concept of subjectivation as intussusception to unfold the theoretical trajectories of the anecdote.