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INDEX

absence, 156–57, 161, 167

abstraction, 6, 96–108, 178–79, 206n11. See also concrete

actual, the: actualization, 7, 12, 25, 74, 91, 93

and the virtual, 7, 16, 19, 25, 90, 174–75. See also virtual, the

affect, 47, 80, 90, 106, 135, 187n12, 189n30, 192n3, 208n20

affirmation, 22, 156–57, 158. See also negation; positivity

Agamben, Giorgio, 7, 14, 121, 138, 160, 189n25, 214n3, 215n20.

Works: “Bartleby, or On Contingency,” 123–4, 143–44

The Coming Community, 214n3

Potentialities, 189n25, 214n2

Ahmed, Sarah, 218n5

Albert the Great, 191n44

Alquié, Ferdinand, 185n2

America, 7, 11–12, 123–51

passim, 212n8, 212n10, 213n12. See also landscape, American; literature: American

analogy, 5, 18, 19, 23, 25, 59–75

passim, 190n38, 201–2n19, 209n13. See also equivocity; univocity

anthropology, 3, 96, 97, 101, 104, 128, 179

anxiety, 98, 99

apartment. See house

Aquinas, Thomas, 2, 8–11, 18–27, 64, 68, 114–15, 186n8, 190nn37–38, 191n41, 191n44, 207n13, 209n13.

Works: Summa contra Gentiles, 24–26, 191n41, 192n45

Summa Theologica, 10, 21, 26, 190n37

architecture, 3, 8, 123, 124, 142, 169–81

passim, 214–15n12, 219n14

aristocratic, the, 18, 90, 178–79, 210n17

Aristotle, 2, 15, 17, 68, 69, 112, 140–41, 142, 189n25, 193n13.

Works: Categories, 9, 186n4

De Anima, 15, 189n25

Arsíc, Branka, 215n21

art, 5, 24, 35, 76–78, 81, 116, 120, 138, 141, 154, 173, 177, 209n12

Artaud, Antonin, 210n16

Augustine, 207n13

Auster, Paul, 7, 123, 133–36, 140, 147, 213n21, 213n24

Bachelard, Gaston, 169–70, 179, 180, 220n35

Badiou, Alain, 2, 3, 5, 10, 13, 16–19, 23, 59, 72–75, 85, 87–95, 96, 103, 112, 121, 142, 190n34, 202n30, 205n7, 207–8n16, 214n12, 215n20, 216n7.

Works: “Beyond Formalization: An Interview with Alain Badiou,” 204–5n5

The Century, 74

Deleuze: The Clamor of Being, 17, 19, 74, 87–95, 204n5

Logics of Worlds, 202n24, 205n7

Metapolitics, 214–15n12

Number and Numbers, 202n24

Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism, 204n5

Balsamo, Anne, 198n24

baroque, the, 3, 8, 171–73, 175, 181, 219n17. See also house: baroque

Barthes, Roland, 69, 99, 103, 179, 203n7

Bataille, Georges, 3, 5, 59–65, 68, 71–73, 93, 129, 185n2, 200n2

Bateson, Gregory, 16

Baudrillard, Jean, 102, 123, 131–32, 136, 137.

Works: America, 127–28, 146–47, 150, 212n8, 212–13n10

Beauvoir, Simone de, 34, 219–20n28

Beck, Robert J., 179–81

Beckett, Samuel, 111, 138, 158

Beckman, Karen, 203n7 235

becoming, 3, 8, 16, 22, 26, 85, 90, 91, 93, 111–17

passim, 123–24, 128–29, 135, 136, 141–43, 152–68

passim, 170–71, 199–200n30

unbecoming, 217n27

being, 2–11, 16, 19, 22, 25, 26, 39, 40, 59, 64–70, 74, 90, 111–12, 114, 117, 123–29

passim, 136, 137, 141–45, 152–68

passim, 171, 198–99n26, 199–200n30, 201n5, 201n19

Bennett, Jane, 188n19

Bergson, Henri, 18, 50–51, 54, 78, 79, 160, 187n14, 211n22, 213n14.

Works: Matter and Memory, 34, 193n11, 213n14

betrayal, 87–89, 95, 133, 166

Bianco, Giuseppe, 185n2

biology, 14–16, 189n25, 189n30

Blanchot, Maurice, 3, 7–8, 26, 40, 72, 111–12, 124, 129, 138, 152–68, 171.

Works: Aminidab, 157, 182–83, 220n35

Awaiting Oblivion, 157

Death Sentence, 160–62, 220n35;

“The Idyll,” 157

The Instant of my Death, 209n8

The Space of Literature, 153–57, 216n11

The Unavowable Community, 214n3

When the Time Comes, 157–58, 216n12

The Writing of the Disaster, 163

body, 33, 38, 49–50, 52, 61, 64, 66, 80–82, 92, 94, 134, 136, 149, 166, 174, 189n5, 196n5, 199–200n30, 210n16, 215n16

disembodiment, 64, 197n14, 198n24, 213–14n24

and language 62–63, 71, 73, 199n28, 201n4, 202n24. See also corporeal, the; disjunction: mind-body; mind: and body relationship

Boethius, 21

Bogue, Ronald, 121, 208n20, 209n12

Bonin, Thérèse, 191n44

Boundas, Constantin V., 189–90n31, 213n14

Bourdieu, Pierre, 219n22

Bowden, Sean, 191n40, 212n25

Braidotti, Rosi, 45–50, 196n1, 196–97n13, 197n21

Brassier, Ray, 13

brain, 48–49, 51, 55–57, 196n11

breath, 67, 71–72, 75

Bréhier, Émile, 39–40, 94, 185n2

Brown, G. Spenser, 193n14

Bryant, Levi, 13, 210n14

Buchanan, Ian, 193n13, 196n12, 199n30

Buñuel, Luis, 157–58

Burroughs, William, 76

Butler, Judith, 45, 197n21

Cache, Bernard, 175–77, 218n10, 219n17

capital, 4, 96, 102–3, 178, 183

Carroll, Lewis, 26, 104.

Works: Alice in Wonderland, 26, 41, 90, 170

Through the Looking Glass, 26, 170

category, 14, 16, 69–70

causality, 13, 69, 91, 93, 197n14, 204n4

character, 140–41

childhood, 11, 146–51, 169–71, 178, 181–83

Christianity, 73, 119, 121, 140

Catholicism, 60, 61, 202n30

Christ, 63, 89, 119, 190n38, 204n5

heresy, 65, 67, 68

cinema, 3, 5, 10, 20, 76, 78, 80, 89, 159, 196n11, 203n7

Clark, Tim, 188n16

clutter, 169, 171, 181–83

College of Sociology, 60, 69

colonialism, 163

concept, 2, 16, 20, 24, 69, 78, 117

conceptual personae, 73, 109

concrete, the, 85, 96–108

passim, 207n14. See also abstraction

consciousness, 33–34, 40, 50, 86, 113–14, 194n23, 195n31, 207n13, 210n16. See also unconscious

continuity, 99, 161, 164, 176–77

contradiction, 46, 51–52, 55, 61, 76–77, 79, 193n11

Cooper, Melinda, 189n25

Corbin, Henry, 191n41

corporeal, the, 20, 25, 31, 33, 39–41, 50–51, 80–81, 90–93, 116, 129, 196–97nn13–14, 205n7. See also body; incorporeal, the

cosmopolitanism, 146, 159

creation, 2, 10, 18–26, 186–87n8, 191–92nn44–45

creativity, 10, 23, 120, 169, 191n42, 212n25

Cross, Richard, 9, 186n4

Culler, Jonathan, 97–98

Cummings, E. E., 139

cut, 15, 31, 37–42, 92, 94

Damasio, Antonio R., 189n30

dark precursor, 3, 11, 20, 121, 212n26

death, 33, 60, 62, 79, 121, 147, 152, 160, 164–65, 200n32, 203n7, 216n1, 217n17. See also life; vitalism

death drive, 6, 11

death instinct, 20, 111, 118, 211nn22–23

Dedekind, Richard, 164, 217n26

Defoe, Daniel, Robinson Crusoe, 6, 86, 113

DeLanda, Manuel, 93, 189n30

Deleuze, Gilles: “Bartleby; or, The Formula,” 7, 139–43

Bergsonism, 10, 50, 94, 142, 193n11, 213n14

Cinema 1: The Movement-Image, 20, 78, 79, 105, 117, 159–60

Cinema 2: The Time-Image, 20, 48, 78, 105, 117

“Coldness and Cruelty,” 6, 20, 110, 112, 113, 117–20, 209–10n13, 211n22, 212n24

“Description of a Woman,” 210–11n17

Desert Islands and Other Texts, 1953–1974, 211–12n23

Deux régimes de fous, vii

Difference and Repetition, 3, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 17–27

passim, 34–35, 52, 68, 70, 76, 79, 94, 111, 116, 118, 185n1, 186nn5–6, 191n40, 194n23, 201n19, 210n16, 212n24, 212n26, 218–19n13, 219–20n28

Essays Critical and Clinical, 216n14

Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza, 10, 18, 19, 51–52, 186n3, 186n5

The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque, 8, 10, 146, 171–74, 218n11, 218n13

“Having an Idea in Cinema,” 81–82, 83

“How Do We Recognize Structuralism?,” 5, 14, 85, 98–104

passim, 110, 212n25

“Immanence: A Life,” 15, 189n25

“Klossowski or Bodies-Language,” 62–63, 199n28

The Logic of Sense, 3, 5, 6, 8, 10, 14, 15, 18, 23, 25, 26, 31, 34–36, 38, 41, 76, 86–95, 103–5, 109, 111, 114, 116, 120, 129, 142, 170, 185nn1–2, 191n40, 193n11, 194n23, 199n28, 204n4, 205n7, 212n25, 216n7, 218n11, 219–20n28

“Mathesis, Science, and Philosophy,” 14, 187n14, 188n17

“Michel Tournier and the World without Others,” 6, 7, 13, 86, 113–14, 121, 209n10, 209n12

Nietzsche and Philosophy, 10, 196n2, 196n5, 198n26, 199n28

Proust and Signs, 106–7, 116, 120, 141, 142, 208nn20–21, 215n16

“Seminar on Scholasticism and Spinoza,” 19, 65–69, 186n6, 190n37, 209–10n13

Spinoza: Practical Philosophy, 109, 121

“Statements and Profiles,” 53, 210n17

Deleuze, Gilles, and Félix Guattari, vii, 1, 4, 5, 6, 10, 16, 20, 50, 52–53, 65, 68–69, 88–90, 102, 110, 113, 121, 189–90n31, 192n50

becoming-minoritarian, 46, 60

becoming-woman, 45, 49, 196–97n13

body without organs, 17, 20, 45, 49, 87, 89, 90, 116, 189n5, 190n32, 196n5, 204n4, 211n23

deterritorialization, 89, 112, 128

lines of flight, 1, 85, 105, 111–12, 128–29, 139, 153

minor literature, 85

molar, 90, 91

molecular, 53, 90, 91, 120

molecular revolution, 141

nomadism and nomad thought, 1, 46, 85, 89, 112, 129, 137, 142

plane of consistency, 20, 176

rhizome, 45, 49, 142, 149, 196–97n13.

Works: Anti-Oedipus, 3–4, 10, 18, 66, 87–88, 95, 109, 113, 116, 189–90nn31–32, 199n28, 204n4, 211n22

Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature, 10

A Thousand Plateaus, 3, 4, 10, 68–69, 87, 135, 141, 142, 189–90n31, 204n4

“Treatise on Nomadology,” 42–43

What is Philosophy?, 3, 10, 209n1

Deleuze, Gilles, and Claire Parnet, “On the Superiority of Anglo-American Literature,” 68, 128–29, 194n26, 200n2, 216n2

Deleuze, Gilles, and Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Masochism, 209n6. See also Deleuze, Gilles, “Coldness and Cruelty”

Delpech-Ramey, Joshua, 12, 187n14, 190n34

democracy, 91, 94, 126, 141

Derrida, Jacques, 31, 102, 121, 139, 197–98n21, 204n2

Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression, 190n33

Demeure, 112

“Eating Well,” 41, 194n25

“Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences,” 101, 207n13

Descartes, René, 47, 192n3, 207–8n16

descent, line of, 104–6, 146

desert island, 6, 86, 113–14, 118, 121

Des Forêts, Louis-René, 165–68

desire, 99, 102–3, 107–10, 120, 133, 161, 204n4, 205n8

désoeuvrement (unworking), 7, 112, 138–39, 144, 152, 157. See also work

dialectic, 1–14

passim, 19, 23, 25, 29–31, 35–36, 42, 52–59

passim, 64, 70–83

passim, 85–95, 103, 105, 111–20

passim, 143, 144, 152–54, 175, 192n3, 193n1, 193n13, 202n30, 213n12

dialectical materialism, 74, 89–92. See also materialism

Dib, Mohammed, 217n23

Dickinson, Emily, 135

Diffee, Christopher, 167–68

difference, 15, 20, 22–23, 32, 35–36, 44, 70, 93, 94–95, 98, 105, 107, 115, 163, 165–67, 204n2, 209–10n13

of degree, 5, 19, 25, 34, 51, 53, 94–95, 193n11

of kind, 5, 19, 25, 34, 51, 54, 94–95, 115, 193n11. See also differentia; haecceity

differentia (specific difference), 9, 14, 35

differentiation, 19, 20, 22, 36, 174, 218n13

disembodiment, 4, 46, 49, 197n14, 198n24, 213–14n24. See also corporeal, the

disjunction, 5, 23, 32, 59–73

passim, 79–83, 90, 93, 110, 161, 164

mind-body, 45–58

passim, 59, 67, 76, 199n28, 199n30

past-future, 158, 160

disjunctive synthesis, 29, 59, 61–63, 74, 95, 164, 199n28

dissolution, 55–57, 154, 164

divine, realm of, 14, 19, 24, 115, 119, 190n37

divine names, 9, 62, 74, 186n3. See also names and naming

Dosse, François, 185–86n2

dualism, 5, 16, 36, 45–54

passim, 63, 71, 73, 115, 173, 180, 181, 185n2

and dialectic, 5, 19, 42, 55, 64, 72, 74, 87–90, 103, 115, 193n13

Duffy, Simon, 189n30

Eckhart, Meister, 21–22, 190–91n38

economy, 60, 77, 80, 98–99, 102, 177–78, 211n22

fluid, 42, 44, 195n31, 195nn33–34

libidinal, 4, 66, 102. See also Lyotard, Jean-François, Libidinal Economy

elemental, the, 6, 52–53, 121

elevation, plane of, 146–51

emptiness, 117–18, 127, 134, 147, 161, 171

empty square, 14, 119

empty structure, 1, 20

empty time, 211n21, 211n23

equivocity, 5, 16, 18, 19, 59, 62–73, 75, 89, 201n19. See also analogy; univocity

essence, 47, 114, 125, 130, 167–68, 170–71

and existence, 61–62

eternal return, 23, 216n7

eternity, 11, 16, 17, 20, 21, 23, 51–53, 79, 114, 115, 185n2, 187n14, 191n41, 207n13

ethics, 36, 41, 109–14, 117, 120–21, 210n16

anethics, 6, 109–10, 113–14, 116, 210n17, 211n21

event, 18, 20, 26, 39, 41, 50, 61, 65, 111, 156, 162–64, 170, 179, 191n40, 204n5, 211n21, 218n13

“Sense-Event” (Žižek), 90–93, 204n4

everyday, the, 11, 162–64, 171, 175, 178–80, 188n17

excess, 93, 104, 105, 143, 158

existence. See essence: and existence

Faulkner, Keith W., 208n20, 210–11n17, 211n21, 211n23

feminist theory, 3, 5, 11, 43–44, 45–52

passim, 195nn32–34, 196n1, 196–97nn12–13, 201n10

Fichou, Jean-Pierre, 127

fidelity, 87–89, 204n5

film. See cinema

Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 14, 128

Flaubert, Gustave, 140–41

Flaxman, Gregory, 196n11

flow, 18, 47, 50

flux, 10, 79, 87, 90, 188n16, 203n9

fold, 146, 171–75, 219n14, 219n28

force, 10, 16, 46–48, 55, 109, 121, 196n5, 198n25, 199–200n30

form, 2, 3, 20, 36, 37, 85, 107, 117, 119–21, 125–26, 135, 159

and content, 6, 44, 62, 71, 98–101, 154

formality, 12, 110–11, 116–20, 210n16

formless, 12–13, 14, 116, 117, 119, 210n16

formalism, 5, 6, 99–101, 104, 193n13, 206n11, 207n14

Russian, 99–101, 104, 106

Foucault, Michel, 31, 76, 99, 103, 109, 155, 189n25, 197–98n21.

Works: Language, Counter Memory, Practice, 203n1

The Order of Things, 110, 189n26

Freud, Sigmund, 4, 6, 17, 66, 74, 90, 116–18, 187n14, 190n33.

Works: Beyond the Pleasure Principle, 118, 211nn22–23

Fuss, Diana, 194–95n29

Gandillac, Maurice de, 185n2

Gatens, Moira, 197n18, 197n20

gaze, 32–33, 174, 192n3

gender, 42, 44, 46, 195n32, 198n24

genesis, 1, 7, 10, 12–27

passim, 115–17, 210n14, 211n21, 211–12n23

dynamic, 24, 27

static, 7, 16, 24, 25, 27, 210n14, 218n11

genus, 14, 35, 70

geography, 128–29, 132–33, 153, 171, 179

gesture, 63, 76–81, 113

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 135

Gilson, Étienne, 9, 185n2, 186n4

globalization, 159

God, 9, 19–27, 61–62, 65, 67, 68, 115, 191nn41–42, 202n23

Gombrowicz, Witold, 105

good and bad, 35, 90, 109, 119, 159

Gouhier, Henri, 185n2

Grosz, Elizabeth, 45, 49–50, 52, 196n13, 197n21, 198n25

Guéroult, Martial, 185n2

haecceity (individuating difference), 9, 14, 35, 70, 141

Hallward, Peter, 17–27

passim, 95, 121, 190n34, 191n42, 192n50, 212n25

hands, 63–64, 77, 80

Haraway, Donna, 45

Hardt, Michael, 197n18, 213n14

and Negri, 88, 91, 204n5, 214n3

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 167–68

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 5, 13, 16, 19, 25, 70, 85, 88–90, 92, 95, 114, 192n3, 193n13, 197–98n21, 204n2

Heidegger, Martin, 155, 188n19

Henry of Ghent, 9

Herzog, Werner, 141, 159–60

hierarchy, 14–16, 19, 20, 106, 115–16, 141–42, 191n40, 198–99n26, 208n21, 214n12

history, 10, 19, 25, 34, 39, 40, 101, 126, 128–29, 147, 150, 153, 162–64, 192n50, 206n11, 207n14, 213n12

house, 8, 11, 124, 138, 146, 149, 157–61, 165, 169–73, 176–83, 219–20n28

apartment, 133, 136, 138, 157–58, 161, 164

baroque, 146, 171–73, 176, 181

Hughes, Joe, 187n11, 210n14

human, 6, 14, 24, 31–42

passim, 46, 50, 52, 86, 97–101, 110, 114, 128, 153, 159, 166, 169, 187n12, 188n19, 218n5

inhuman, 31–40

passim, 96, 99, 101, 113, 207n13, 217n28. See also humanism

humanism, 13, 31, 36, 49–50, 52, 72, 96–97, 189n26, 207n13, 216n11

and anti-humanism, 36, 97. See also human

Husserl, Edmund, 115, 192n3, 194n23, 219n18

Hyppolite, Jean, 185n2

idealism, 79, 90, 91, 94, 140

ideal, 25, 174, 198n24, 218n10, 218n13

identity, 80–81, 105

image, 77–82, 175, 177

imagination, 175, 178, 183

immanence, 2, 15, 18, 186n4, 189n25, 205n7, 210n14

immaterial, the. See materialism

immobility, 4, 5, 16–27

passim, 30, 70, 72, 76–83, 86, 111–12, 123–52, 158–59, 166, 203n7, 203n9, 204n16, 212–13n24, 216nn12–13. See also stasis; stuckness

impersonal, 24, 48, 51, 113, 118, 121. See also person

incompossibility, 174–75, 218n11. See also Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm

incorporeal, the, 15, 20, 23–25, 31, 33, 38–42, 49–51, 80, 90–94, 116, 121, 197n14, 204nn4–5, 205n7, 205n10, 213–14n24, 217n28. See also corporeal, the

individuation, 14, 16, 22

inertia, 7–8, 11, 39, 73, 111–12, 124, 152–68 passim

infinite, the, 22, 146, 150

inflection, 172, 174–77, 218n13, 219nn17–18

inhuman. See human

intensity, 11, 47, 57, 90, 129, 130, 146, 151

intensive, 19, 189n30

interiority, 137–38, 146, 172–75

Irigaray, Luce, 44, 45, 49, 195n34

James, Henry, 167–68

Jameson, Fredric, 15–16, 29, 31, 33–34, 88, 219n21.

Works: The Political Unconscious, 206n11, 207n14

Sartre: The Origins of a Style, 33–34, 37

Valences of the Dialectic, 193n13, 204n2, 207n13, 219n21

Jardine, Alice, 49

Jay, Martin, 220n31

Jehlen, Myra, 213n12

Johnson, Christopher, 97

Johnston, Adrian, 9, 186n7

joy, 6, 56, 99, 107–8, 207n14, 219–20n28

Joyce, James, 104, 178

Jung, Carl Gustav, 12, 187n14

Kafka, Franz, 111, 138, 210n16

Kant, Immanuel, 87, 114, 117, 119–21, 189n30, 211n23

Kazarian, Edward P., 209n9

Kerouac, Jack, 7, 123, 138, 130–31, 140, 147

Kerslake, Christian, 12, 187n14, 211n22

kinship, 97–99, 103

Klossowski, Pierre, 3, 5, 29, 40, 44, 45, 49, 59–83, 102, 103, 185n2, 202n24, 203n13.

Works: Le Bain de Diane, 203n13

The Baphomet, 67, 73, 77, 203n13

Laws of Hospitality, The (trilogy), 61, 72, 200n3, 201n5, 202n30

La Monnaie vivante, 66, 73, 77

Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle, 54–58, 196n2, 198nn25–26, 199n28

The Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (vol. 2 of hospitality trilogy), 64, 72, 76, 81, 203n13

Robert Ce Soir (vol. 1 of hospitality trilogy), 61–62, 71–72, 77, 105, 203n13

Le Souffleur (vol. 3 of hospitality trilogy), 72

Korn, Francis, 97

Labbie, Erin Felicia, 189n28

Lacan, Jacques, 3–4, 32, 41, 66, 85, 89–93, 95, 99, 103, 104, 107, 109, 114, 116, 119, 120, 174, 189n28, 190n34, 205n8

anamorphosis, 174–75

castration, 89, 91–92

gaze, 32

phallus, 89, 91–92

sardine can, 32, 41

symbolic, 91.

Works: “Kant with Sade,” 3, 119

Seminar 6, Desire and its Interpretation, 93, 205n8

Seminar 7, The Ethics of Psychoanalysis, 3, 66, 93, 109, 205n10

Seminar 11, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, 32, 174

LaCapra, Dominick, 192n5

Lampert, Jay, 192n50, 211n21

landscape, American, 11–12, 26, 123, 126, 130–33, 137, 146–51, 176. See also America

language, 34, 62–63, 71, 73, 114, 124, 132, 138–40, 143, 178, 199n28, 202n24

Laporte, Jean, 185n2

large, the, 26, 141, 146, 159–60, 169–70, 172

larval subject, 2, 27

law, 107, 119–21, 182–83, 208n21, 211n23, 216n13

Lawrence, D. H., 128, 140, 178, 210n16

Lazzarato, Maurizio, 214n3

Leclercq, Stéfan, 186n4

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, 8, 10, 171–75, 207–8n16, 218n11

Levinas, Emmanuel, 155, 160

Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 3, 5–6, 82, 85, 96–108, 119, 140, 207nn13–14

Oedipus myth, 97–101.

Works: The Elementary Structures of Kinship, 97, 103, 206n6

Introduction to the Work of Marcel Mauss, 98–99, 206n7

Structural Anthropology vols 1–2, 97–101, 206n4, 206n6, 206n11

libidinal economy. See economy: libidinal

life, 2, 14–16, 60, 78, 80, 98, 109, 110, 135, 149, 160, 162, 164, 171, 188n17, 189nn25–26, 189n28, 195n33, 203n7

nonorganic, 15, 16, 203n7. See also death; vitalism

Lingis, Alphonso, 12, 195n34

literature, 26, 152, 154, 171, 177, 179, 200n2

American, 3, 4, 7, 26, 68, 83, 123, 125, 128, 130–38, 140, 144, 153, 167–68

comparative, 104–6

Lloyd, Genevieve, 51–52, 53

logic, 8, 9, 12, 13, 15, 18, 27, 52, 54, 121, 149, 185n2, 186n4, 188n16, 193n13, 201n19, 209–10n13

disjunctive, 34, 38

Lombard, Peter, 9

Lowry, Malcolm, 14

Lynn, Greg, 219n14

Lyotard, Jean-François, Libidinal Economy, 4, 66, 79–80, 102, 201n10

MacCannell, Juliet Flower, 197–98n21

Mackay, Robin, 13, 187n14, 188n18

Malfatti von Monteregio, Johann, 13

Mallarmé, Stéphane, 155, 157

Mammeri, Mouloud, 162–63

Marks, John, 210n16

Marvell, Andrew, 149, 215n5

Marx, Karl, 4, 66, 96, 102

Marxism, 4, 150, 193n13

masochism, 6, 11, 20, 110, 112–13, 118, 120–21, 208n20, 209n9, 209–10n13, 212n24

Massumi, Brian, 189nn30–31

materialism, 18, 52, 53, 74, 75, 79, 90–94, 186n8, 202n24

immaterial, 90, 116, 158, 180, 213–14n24. See also dialectic: dialectical materialism; matter

mathematics, 16, 22, 73, 189n30

Mathy, Jean-Philippe, 212n10

matter, 50–51, 174–75, 202n23, 213n14. See also materialism

Mauss, Marcel, 98–99, 102, 140, 206n7

McNulty, Tracy, 200n3, 201n5

mediation, 5, 7, 19, 25, 35–36, 43, 91–95, 156

and nonmediation, 4, 22, 43, 103, 115

Medieval philosophy. See Scholasticism

Meeker, Natania, 196n2

Meillassoux, Quentin, 13, 114

Melville, Herman, 10, 128, 159, 165, 167–68.

Works: “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” 7, 111, 123–24, 135, 136, 137–45, 158–59, 215n21

Billy Budd, 141

Pierre; or, The Ambiguities, 143

memory, 17, 20, 34, 78, 116, 169–70, 187n13, 193n11, 211n22, 219–20n28

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 33, 34, 180, 219–20n28, 220n30.

Works: Phenomenology of Perception, 193n10

The Visible and the Invisible, 33, 192n7, 220n30

metaphysics, 9, 18. See also being; ontology

Michaels, Walter Benn, 94

middle, the, 11, 22, 67, 68, 79, 146–51, 175, 176, 194n26

midnight, 152, 155–56, 158, 165

Milbank, John, 16, 19, 70–71, 74, 190n38

mind, 3, 45, 46, 48, 49, 50–58, 172, 198n25, 218n10

and body relationship, 5, 45–59

passim, 67, 76, 130, 172–73, 197n17, 197nn20–21, 198n24, 199n28, 199–200n30, 213n14, 218n10. See also body; disjunction: mind-body

minimalism, 82, 158, 171, 176, 177, 207–8n16

minor, the, 11–12, 16, 85, 175, 187n9, 187n12

becoming-minoritarian, 46, 60

modernism, 176–78, 219n21

morality, 109, 117

Mortimer, Mildred, 217n21

movement, 1, 5, 7, 8, 10, 18–26, 39, 47, 53, 59, 71–83, 111, 116, 117, 123–45, 153–60, 166, 168, 175, 189n30, 192n45, 203n7, 212–13n10

multiple, 22, 89, 93

mysticism, 12, 14, 21, 23, 27, 130–31

Nabokov, Vladimir, 7, 123, 131–33, 140, 147

names and naming, 15, 19, 61, 62

divine, 9, 62, 74, 186n3

Nancy, Jean-Luc, 214n3

narrative and narration, 60, 65, 67, 81, 82, 104, 124, 132, 139, 141, 157–58, 161–64, 206–7n11, 207n14

negation, 118, 121, 156–57

negative, 4, 7, 12, 16, 18, 21, 112–13, 187n12, 199–200n30, 203n7, 211n22. See also affirmation; positivity

Negri, Antonio, 214n3

and Hardt, 88, 91, 204n5, 214n3

Ngai, Sianne, 203n11

Nietzsche, Friedrich, 18, 23, 45, 54, 55, 57, 60, 63, 73, 107, 109, 196n2, 196n5, 198–99nn25–26, 199n28, 210n16

nonsense, 3, 92

nothingness, 40, 155–57

number, 21, 73, 75, 85, 104, 173, 202n30, 217n26

and counting, 66

object, 11, 13, 33–34, 37–38, 40, 147, 159, 171, 174–82, 188n17, 188n19, 188n21, 194n23, 216n13, 219–20n28

inanimate, 32, 37, 41

solid, 29, 31, 32, 36, 37, 42–44

object-oriented ontology (OOO), 11, 13, 188n21

Olkowski, Dorothea, 196n5

One, 5, 64, 71, 74, 75, 85, 88, 89, 93

ontology, 1–8, 11–17, 20, 23, 27, 30, 74, 83, 86, 91, 112, 114, 120, 124, 138, 142, 152–57, 167–68, 186n4, 188n16, 191n40, 196n5, 204n2

dark, 4, 6

opposition, 33, 34, 35, 42, 64, 77, 83, 144, 181, 193nn13–14, 213n12

order, 14, 15, 20, 24, 26, 107, 110, 115–18, 191n40, 211n19

orthodoxy, 68, 70–71, 75

oscillation, 52, 56, 57, 67, 71, 72, 93, 144, 160, 215n20

other, 6, 7, 33, 41, 86, 113–16, 121, 152, 177

structure-other, 6, 25, 86, 114–16, 210n14, 216n1

a priori, 209n11, 210n17, 216n1. See also world: otherworldly; world without others

pain, 54–58

paradox, 14, 18, 20, 32, 42, 55, 80, 87–88, 114, 115, 119, 138, 159, 167

passivity, 165, 167–68

Pearson, Keith Ansell, 15, 188n16, 211n22

Pecora, Vincent, 177–79

perception, 4, 8, 14, 23, 34, 38, 40, 41, 50–51, 86, 113–115, 123–25, 131, 133, 135, 146, 149, 153, 158, 161, 163, 165, 169–82, 188n19, 193n11, 218n5, 219n17, 219–20n28

Perniola, Mario, 212n24

Perse, Saint-John, 74

person, 9, 16, 50, 80, 199n28. See also impersonal

perversity, 3, 4, 61, 63, 66, 71, 73, 86, 92, 95, 109, 121, 210n17

phantasm, 66, 72, 73, 74, 80

phenomenology, 8, 31, 34, 40, 42, 86, 124, 159, 165, 170, 180, 188n19, 194n23, 194n29, 197n17, 207n13, 218n5, 219n18, 219–20n28

philosophy, 5, 10, 52, 118, 120, 125–26, 152, 171

French, 2, 3, 136, 138

and mind, 48, 52

Scholastic, 8–10, 14, 17–27, 59–72, 185n2, 186n4, 186n8. See also Scholasticism

Pierce, Christine, 195n32

Pini, Giorgio, 9, 186n4, 186–187n8, 190n36, 201n19

Plato, 5, 14, 17, 29, 66, 89, 112–13, 119, 193n11, 207–8n16

Platonism, 12, 17, 89, 120, 142, 207–8n16.

Works: Sophist, 34–36

politics, 18, 25, 88, 90–91, 96, 140, 142, 163–164, 167, 177, 204n5, 208n21, 214n12

pornography, 60–65, 67

and “pornology,” 62–64, 71, 73

Porphyry, 9, 14

positivity, 3, 4, 6–7, 12, 16, 17, 18, 43, 58, 87, 91, 112, 120, 129, 153, 199n28, 199–200n30, 203n9, 211n22. See also affirmation; negation

possible, the, 114, 120

postmodernism, 176, 219n21

poststructuralism, 6, 31, 68, 86

presence, 153, 155, 156–57, 160–62, 166–67, 168

problem, 10, 22, 25, 93

Propp, Vladimir, 99–102, 106, 206n8, 206n11, 207n14

Protevi, John, 189n30

Proust, Marcel, 116, 120, 142, 178, 179, 180, 206n11, 208nn20–21, 210n17, 215n16, 219n28

psychoanalysis, 9, 17, 169, 190n33, 205n7

purity, 6, 18, 20, 26, 113, 116–121, 127, 130–32, 135, 156–62, 164, 168, 170, 172, 187n14, 199n28

Quintilian, 63, 77

Rancière, Jacques, 7, 123, 138–42, 144, 214–15n12, 215n16

realism, 10

speculative, 13

relation, 22, 42–43, 92, 114, 120, 173, 174

and non-relation, 22, 93, 114

repetition, 7, 20, 99, 107, 143, 153–56

resistance, 76, 81–82, 83

Resnais, Alain, 78–79

reversal, 23, 39–40, 42, 59, 71–72, 73, 77, 116, 130, 149, 154, 181

and irreversibility, 40, 66, 118, 206–7n11

Ricoeur, Paul, 101, 207n13

Ricco, John Paul, 217n27

road, 134, 140, 142, 166

road trip, 7, 123, 130–32, 147–49, 168

Robbe-Grillet, Alain, 78–79

Rodowick, D. N., 204n16

Rose, Gillian, 47–48, 49

Ruiz, Raúl, 5, 81–82, 83, 203n13

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold von, 86, 110, 112, 209n6

Sade, Marquis de, 60, 61, 65, 66, 86, 112, 118, 120, 121, 202n30

sadism, 1, 3, 6, 11, 20, 86, 110–13, 117–21, 208n20, 209–10n13, 210n17, 212n24

Saint-Hilaire, Étienne Geoffroy, 16

Sartre, Jean-Paul, 3, 5, 6, 13, 29, 31–34, 36–44, 59, 72–73, 86, 92, 114, 157, 164, 188n19, 210n17, 216n11, 219–20n28

gaze, 33

in-itself (and for-itself), 38, 39, 42, 72–73, 86, 114, 155, 164, 194n23, 195n33, 217n28

practico-inert, 73, 164, 217n28

praxis, 73, 164, 202n23, 208n21.

Works: Being and Nothingness, 31, 32–33, 36, 38, 39, 42, 72–73, 164, 192n3, 195n33

Critique of Dialectical Reason, 73, 164, 202n23, 208n21

The Imaginary: A Phenomenological Psychology of the Imagination, 197n17

Situations I, 220n35

Transcendence of the Ego, 192n5, 194n23

The Wall, 33–34, 193n8, 216n11

“What is Literature?,” 216n11

Saussure, Ferdinand de, 103

Sauvagnargues, Anne, 189n30

Scholasticism, 1–27, 29, 35, 59, 61–68, 76, 186n6, 186n8, 189n28, 191n40. See also philosophy: Scholastic

Schrift, Alan D., 185n2, 206n7

Scotus, John Duns, 8–9, 15, 18, 23, 64, 70, 141, 186n4, 186n8, 201n19, 209n13

Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky, 218n5

self-defense, 53–54, 57

Sense-Event (Žižek), 90–93, 204n4. See also nonsense

separation, 5, 15, 21, 33–34, 37, 40, 42, 53–57, 73, 80, 94–95, 161, 185n2

series, and seriality, 6, 14, 15, 22, 35, 50, 73, 92, 95, 98, 103–7, 118, 208n21

divergent series, 15, 91, 99

Serres, Michel, 207–8n16

sexuality, 46–47, 60, 62, 80, 118, 121, 133, 205n7, 212n24, 218n5

Shakespeare, William, Hamlet, 117

Shaviro, Steven, 80, 189n30

sickness, 54–57, 198nn25–26, 200n32

and health, 45

signification, 92, 103, 104, 188n17, 208n20

silence, 118, 150, 169, 182, 199n28

Simondon, Gilbert, 16

simulacrum, 47, 66, 72–74, 80, 89

singularity, 69, 98, 99, 106, 164, 176, 219n17

small, the, 26, 141, 146, 159–60, 169–70, 172

Smith, Daniel W., 186n4, 190n34

Smock, Ann, 163, 165–68

solecism, 63–64, 73, 76–77, 79, 81

solitude, 169, 181, 210n17, 212n24

Sophocles, Antigone, 110, 205n10

soul, 15, 51, 172–75, 182, 218n10

space and spatiality, 3, 8, 11, 24, 26, 43, 46, 47, 50, 82, 113–14, 123–33, 137, 138, 146–51, 157–65, 169–183, 188n16, 213n12, 218n5, 218n10

species, 14, 35, 70

speed, vii, 10, 50, 127, 130, 132, 135, 147, 148, 151, 203n7

Spinoza, Benedict de, 5, 15, 18, 19, 23, 45, 51–53, 59, 64–70, 73–75, 88, 112, 118–19, 121, 185n2, 189n30, 191n42, 197nn17–18, 197n20.

Works: Ethics, 51, 70, 119, 197n17

Theologico-Political Treatise, 67

stasis, 1–3, 7, 11, 16, 18, 20, 23–27, 47, 69–70, 73, 79, 83, 111–13, 117–19, 124, 128, 137, 152–53, 164, 167, 203n7, 210n14. See also immobility; stuckness

stillness, 148–51, 165–67

Stivale, Charles J., 205n6

Stoicism, 39, 94, 109

Stone, Christopher D., 216n13

Straub, Jean-Marie, and Danièle Huillet, 81

structuralism, 1, 5–6, 85–86, 96–108, 109, 119, 179, 188n16, 193n13, 207n14

structure, 1–16

passim, 20, 23–25, 27, 39, 60, 82, 83, 85–86, 93, 95, 96–121

passim, 135, 142, 174, 188n16, 206n3, 207n14, 207n16, 212n25, 219–20n28. See also other: structure-other

stuckness, 4, 8, 11, 16, 19, 23, 70, 104, 111, 119, 123–24, 134, 140, 157–59, 164, 202n24, 203n9. See also immobility; stasis

subject, 24, 119

desubjectification, 24, 52

subjectivity, 46, 49, 161, 186n7

substance, 15, 25, 47, 50, 67, 70, 71, 73, 75, 115, 191n40, 195n33, 196n5

surface, 49, 127, 129, 205n7, 218n10

Sutton, Damian, 203n7

synthesis. See disjunctive synthesis; temporality: syntheses of time; temporality: third synthesis of time

tableau vivant, 3, 5, 30, 63, 72, 76–82

temporality, 8, 18–27, 31, 36–42, 78, 86, 111, 114–18, 124, 129, 132, 148, 153–64, 170–71, 179, 185n2, 188n16, 193n11, 203n7, 207n13, 213n12, 216n7, 219–20n28

Aion, 6, 26, 38–39, 94, 111–12, 114, 116, 124, 129, 152, 156, 158, 171, 194n23

Chronos, 38, 39, 111, 114, 116, 152, 161, 194n23, 216n7

crystal-image of, 20, 78, 203n7

future, 20, 21, 24, 38–39, 82–83, 86, 94, 111, 112, 115, 117, 124, 128–29, 152–53, 156, 158, 160, 163, 164, 169–71, 211n19

future-anterior, 83, 162

intemporality, 2, 20, 24, 111–18, 121, 152, 153, 158, 164, 213n12

past, 20, 21, 24, 36–39, 51, 78–79, 86, 94, 112, 114, 115–17, 124, 128, 129, 152–64

passim, 169–71, 177, 211n19, 219–20n28

past-future, 8, 26, 111, 112, 114, 124, 129, 152–53, 156, 158, 160, 164, 170–71

present, 8, 26, 36–39, 78–79, 82, 94, 111–16, 124, 129, 152–71, 194n23, 216n7, 217n17, 219–20n28

syntheses of time, 17, 20, 22, 116–17, 192n50, 219–20n28

third synthesis of time, 1, 6, 11, 13, 14, 17, 20, 23–26, 79, 111, 115–18, 124, 185n2, 187n14, 211n19, 211n21, 211n23

Thacker, Eugene, 15, 189n28

theology, 2, 10, 13, 17, 18, 21–27, 59–65, 73, 115, 201n10

negative, 12, 18, 21

Thomism. See Aquinas, Thomas; Scholasticism

thought, 39, 45–58, 74, 78, 120, 123–36, 137, 141, 146–47, 153, 155, 156, 195n31, 205n7, 210n16

Tocqueville, Alexis de, 123, 125–28, 136, 137

Tournier, Michel, 6, 7, 86, 113, 158

transcendence, 2, 17, 18, 21–22, 90, 92, 120, 186n7, 189n30, 205n7

transcendental empiricism, 189n30, 210n14

transgression, 5, 59–64

passim, 71, 93, 132

travel, 7, 128–34, 150–51, 153, 159, 168

road trip, 7, 168

truth, 88, 89, 126, 202n24, 204n5

Uexküll, Jakob von, 16

unconscious, 6, 12, 118, 187n14, 210n16, 211n22. See also consciousness

univocity, 3, 5, 9, 15–27, 59, 62, 64–75, 85, 88, 89, 92–93, 186n4, 201–2n19, 209n13. See also analogy; equivocity

unworking. See désoeuvrement

vantage point, 170, 171, 174, 176, 180–81, 218n5

Velde, Rudi te, 186n8

verb, 37, 39, 41, 154–57

verticality, 146, 151

violence, 37, 38, 40–41, 48, 92, 118–19, 151, 160, 197n14

Virno, Paolo, 214n3

virtual, the, 7, 8, 11, 12, 16–19, 25, 27, 39, 50, 79, 89–93, 124, 170–74, 177, 179, 182–83, 189nn30–31, 198n24, 204n5, 218n13, 219n14. See also actual, the

vitalism, 2, 12, 13, 15, 27, 189n25. See also death; life

voice, 53, 63, 77, 79, 81, 82

Wall, Thomas Carl, 160–62, 164, 165, 168, 217n17

Whitehead, Alfred North, 16, 189n30

Whitman, Walt, 140

Widder, Nathan, 186n30

Wittig, Monique, 45

Wood, Dennis and Robert J. Beck, 179–81

Woods, Tim, 213n24

work, 22, 53, 138, 143

of art, 38, 154–55. See also désoeuvrement

world, 17, 18, 24, 25, 27, 171, 173, 175, 183

ceiling, 8, 124, 149, 171, 176, 177, 181–83

otherworldly, 12, 17, 18, 25, 161, 171

world without others, 1, 11, 20, 24, 25, 111, 113–17, 121, 158

Yerushalmi, Yosef Hayim, 190n33

Žižek, Slavoj, 2, 3, 5, 9, 10, 18, 23, 85, 87–95, 190n34, 204–5nn4–5.

Works: On Belief, 94

Organs without Bodies: Deleuze and Consequences, 3, 87, 88, 93, 94

The Puppet and the Dwarf, 89

The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology, 204–5n5. See also Sense-Event

Zola, Émile, 14, 188n24

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