Performatives After Deconstruction

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What has happened since de Man and Derrida first read Austin? How has the encounter between deconstruction and the performative affected each of these terms? In addressing these questions, this book brings together scholars whose works have been provoked in different ways by the encounter of deconstruction and the performative. Following Derrida's appeal to any rigorous deconstruction to reckon with Austin's theorems and his ever growing commitment to rethink and rewrite the performative and its multiple articulations, it is now urgent that we reflect upon the effects of a theoretical event that has profoundly marked the contemporary scene. The contributors to this book suggest various ways of re-reading the heritage and future of both deconstruction and the performative after their encounter, bringing into focus both the constitutive aporia of the performative and the role it plays within the deconstruction of the metaphysical tradition. Title Page Copyright Page Contents Notes on Contributors Acknowledgement Introduction: 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 One Chapter 1 Promising Hospitality: l’Étranger Gives the Law in D’Alembert’s ‘Genève’ ‘Genève’ Strangers in ‘Genève’ Concerting and disconcerting promises Notes Chapter 2 Performative Perfume Im-possible responsivity Ethical overload The limits of the performative Performativity on the down-low Notes Chapter 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 Two Chapter 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 Chapter 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 Chapter 6 Archive-Abilities (Archivable) Abstract Archive and event Archive and impression Singularity and event Metonymies of the archive The archive and the anthological Part Three Chapter 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 Chapter 8 Passive Performative Questions Again the performative: That perhaps it does not exist Inhabited structures and etiolated performatives The moral performative Notes Part Four Chapter 9 Departures: The American Future of Psychoanalysis1 Theatre of cruelty New York stories The future of an illusion Notes Chapter 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