..., dust is as much a standard of representation as it is one object of representation among others. In the most extreme case, it becomes the defining medium of inscription. In Paul Celan’s work, the attempt to articulate a rhetoric of negation that will put language on something other than a dusty footing...

... stuff out. Or to develop more questions. Or to ask others to develop more questions. Something along these lines. In the writing something will hopefully be learned. And that writing concerns gender, indeed is concerned by gender, and perhaps more specifically its discontents that go under...

....” In the light of this questioning, things seem neither self- evidently given nor mi- raculous but, in Aristotelian terms, “problematic.” They become something, in other words, that we want to, and can, understand or explain. The form of this philosophical understanding is the ex- planation...

... in something that falls short of genuine knowledge (PW, 1:10). The third principle invokes the doctrine of intuition. Descartes states that "intuition is the indubitable conception of a clear and attentive mind which proceeds solely from the light of reason" (PW, 1:14...

... disagreement with something that happened against our will).10 And yet this defi nition, which would give us what sorrow is, only does so by exposing its essen- tial relationality, its being nothing other than a volitional intensity of the negativity of difference. Emil Cioran...

... be presented; it is not what is produced or something that can be shown, such as the newborn baby or the dead man; rather, “it is the event as it comes about [ é-vient ], as it happens” ( BSP , 169). The event is not, but happens. The “as” has a temporal sense: “As it happened, there was a flash...

... coherence (commentaries are helpful here), until I open it onto a question with a shared grounding, one that speaks to me in my language and concerns me, has something to do with me—this is what I will use as place and link to draw up my vis vis. So I don’t oppose Chinese and European thought as two...

... will, an individual active in the role of utterance production.” An author is something different, “someone who has selected the sentiments that are being expressed and the words in which they are encoded.” Finally, a principal is the person “whose beliefs have been told . . . who is committed to what the words say...

... of something else, something above life, atop it, beyond it, besides it, in addition to it. This suggests that surviving, making it through something like the fi rst wave of the AIDS epidemic in the United States, puts some- thing else atop or beside our own lives. Once we live and someone else does...

... irreversible. The second and secondary appointment may not overtake the destructive propensities of January 20 but shifts ground enough for something different to rise up, if not the fresh, new sun. The adjusted date, January 21, does not cancel out the injurious date that it must somehow succeed, but it tends...

..., that which will just correspond to given functions or the execution of a program, which a function carries out. The problem for me at that time was, Can one think of cybernetics in relation to something that is instead a function that we do not know yet, in order to open up the function? Rather than saying...

... to what is precisely not absolute knowledge but the complete opposite, absolute nonknowledge —that is, computationally and functionally integrated de-noetization (noesis having been functionally disintegrated )—something that informs me is something that matters to me, something of material...

... political questions about what can count as an ac- tor, function, cause, eff ect, totality, world, and so forth— indeed, what can appear as “something,” what can appear at all, a pressing question for Adachi both as a militant and as a fi lmmaker. In the paradigmatic sentence...

... or twenty- fi rst century, it sounds as though when Einstein says we need to think about clocks and trains or when Henri Poincaré says we need to think about two telegraphers coordinating their signals in time so that they can map the world, they mean something pure- ly hypothetical. We quickly assume...

.... • • • “There is a big secret about sex: most people don’t like it.” As far as pickup lines go, this one does something splashier and more deceptively vicious with the word like than one would think pos- sible. Imagining a “kind of lightning thing about fi rst sentences,” Bersani recalls this opening...

..., and this evaluative word is often applied unrefl ectively or euphemisti- cally. To say that something is “interesting” is a convenient way to say something positive and pleasant about a work without giving it any substantial consideration. “That’s interesting!” often func- tions as an empty...

..., as something like a cow that then evolved to eat fish out of the river and then evolved to have no limbs but fins and to live mostly in the ocean, though some cetaceans can still be found in rivers. Of course, this story of origin, like the stories of population genetics, betrays itself. Did whales start out...

..., “spotless” and “faithful,” or something lost to evil enchantment, locked in white skin. When Stella was just six months old, I began to scream out, “Tree it, tree it,” as we walked down the street. Out of what memory did the words and the vehemence come? Even now, when she is nearly crippled...

... aesthetics Jacques Rancière Jean-François Lyotard Gilles Deleuze I want to take my point of departure from a collection of essays by Jacques Rancière, Dissensus: On Politics and Aesthetics , 1 specifically from a repeated turn in its argument that takes on something of a symptomatic character...