ABSTRACT
In The Test Drive Avital Ronell, chair of NYU’s German Department, argues that the test “has restructured the field of everyday and psychic life” (2005, 19). “The test,” she writes,
has everything to do not only with the way the policing of political sites and bodies takes place but also with the experienceability and constitution of reality in general, especially since the elliptical circuit that now has been established between testing and the real often works to cancel the difference between them.
