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Index
Cover-Page
Half-Title
Series
Title
Copyright
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgement
Introduction: Positing, the Performative and the Supplement
The performativity of the performative
Autoperformative and self-positing
The text of the archi-promise
The fore-structure of language
The aporia of positing
Note on the contributions
Notes
Part 1
1 Promising Hospitality: l’Étranger Gives the Law in D’Alembert’s ‘Genève’
‘Genève’
Strangers in ‘Genève’
Concerting and disconcerting promises
Notes
2 Performative Perfume
Im-possible responsivity
Ethical overload
The limits of the performative
Performativity on the down-low
Notes
3 The Performative and the Normative
The standard narrative of the performative
Heidegger’s responsibility
The performative in the general and the strict sense
The performativity of the event
Normative performativity and normative theory
The separation and co-implication of the performative and the normative
Notes
Part 2
4 Performativity as Ek-Scription: Adonis After Derrida
A successful performative is impure
Ex-scription
Writing in an idiom of the dead
Lacanian inmixing
September 11 – A grave for New York
Notes
5 Living On: The Absolute Performative
The double yes: From the linguistic to the absolute performative
Living on: The absolute performative
Traces of life in the text
Living ouverture
Notes
6 Archive-Abilities
(Archivable) Abstract
Archive and event
Archive and impression
Singularity and event
Metonymies of the archive
The archive and the anthological
Part 3
7 The Performativity of Art
The iterability of art as a problem for performativity
The signature, countersignature and art as performative fiction
Who or what signs? The blindness of signatures
The principle of ruin and the touch of the countersignature
Notes
8 Passive Performative
Questions
Again the performative: That perhaps it does not exist
Inhabited structures and etiolated performatives
The moral performative
Notes
Part 4
9 Departures: The American Future of Psychoanalysis
Theatre of cruelty
New York stories
The future of an illusion
Notes
10 Laruelle Contra Derrida: Performative Realism and the Logics of Consistency
Introduction
Performative realism: Introducing Laruelle’s non-philosophy
More Derridean than Derrida?
Deconstructing (in)consistency
Notes
Epilogue: No Sooner Said Than Done
Bibliography
Index
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