... This chapter critically reconstructs Jacques Derrida’s sketchy outlines of a deconstructive account of worldliness. It examines how Derrida radicalizes Heidegger’s account of temporality by arguing that time is not proper to human existence but comes from the inhuman other. It then suggests...

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... This chapter deals with the example of cats in the work of Slavoj Žižek and Jacques Derrida. Their theorization of animals, and its relation to anthropocentrism, can help us understand the “inhuman core of the human.” The aim here is not to rehabilitate animality per se or an attempt to examine...

... globalization. It offers a critical assessment of theories of heterotemporality and alternative modernities and suggests that the inhuman dimension of the opening of the world by the coming of time is more fundamental as a force of transformation in contemporary globalization. globalization alternative...

... in postcolonial capitalist globalization. It offers a critical assessment of theories of heterotemporality and alternative modernities and suggests that the inhuman dimension of the opening of the world by the coming of time is more fundamental as a force of transformation in contemporary globalization...

... is not proper to human existence but comes from the inhuman other. It then suggests that this leads to a conception of the world as a nontotalizable whole or text in general and an understanding of the opening of the world by the coming of the other as the imperative to act. It explores the insights...

... that the primary force for opening new worlds is the inhuman gift of time. Michelle Cliff Jamaica the Caribbean sugar capital tourist capital neocolonialism colonialism bildungsroman place feminism revolution ...

... everything from scale-model wave tanks to computer-generated imagery (CGI) and explicates how they enable waves' narrative purposes and effects. Towering waves in film have operated as emblems of the elemental power of cosmic, inhuman, arbitrary forces; the return of the social-environmental repressed...

... that as a form of narrative, the ethics of storytelling draws on the inhuman gift of time that renders self-determination aporetic. Nuruddin Farah Somalia worldly ethics humanitarianism famine the gift Marcel Mauss storytelling philanthropy Bildung ...

... the inhuman and cyborg nature of the energy market and its players, the second part of the chapter traces the colonial origins and continuing colonial practice of energy production, specifically fossil fuels, hydroelectricity, and nuclear power. It traces its impacts on indigenous peoples and the blindness...

... is an exception, endorsing street fairs, marketplaces, and awareness of Chinese cultural heritage to facilitate registered bilateral trade and investment. These advances are overshadowed by illicit transnational employment rings whose Chinese victims speak of inhumane conditions in northern Mexico’s factories...

... in a masochistic libidinal economy in which the Lady is an inaccessible, inhuman partner (a “Thing”) who tasks the courtly lover with impossible demands that are radically incommensurable with his needs and desires, Megna instead attends to works of medieval literature—above all, Geoffrey Chaucer’s Troilus...

... and matter, at the effects of transportation, and at the close parallels between global governance regimes of media and environments, this section advances a political analysis. Developing the case that neoliberal communications are defined by the inhumanity of the cyborg corporation, it identifies waste...