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1CitationDerrida, “Khōra”, 96.
2CitationHarman, “Objects, Matter, Sleep, and Death”, 200.
3 All references to Gravity in this paper, including to interviews, are from the feature and extras carried on the Blu-Ray DVD version referenced in the Bibliography.
4 It need hardly be emphasized that the exercise is not a variation on Cartesian minds-in-vats scenarios, for the vat's analogue is the room – in which there is no mind. A different tutor might mischievously specify that the room contains not a chair, but a vat. The prospects for confused associations would be – this is said apologetically – mind-boggling.
5CitationStein, Everybody's Biography, 298.
6CitationMorton, “Ecology without the Present”, 230.
7 On this theme, see CitationHill, Blanchot: Extreme Contemporary.
8CitationDerrida, ““The Fiction of the World””, 1. The text is from ‘Tenth Session: March 26, 2003’ in The Beast and the Sovereign Volume II, 265–266, 268–269. The journal version is quoted here out of regard for its title and the accompanying papers.
9CitationMorton, “Ecology without the Present”, 230.
10 Ibid., 233.
11 Arguably this is the verbal equivalent to ‘the mathematical conceivability of the detotalization of being-qua-being’: CitationMeillassoux, After Finitude, 103.
12CitationGolding, Pincher Martin, 320.
13 Quentin Meillassoux or Alain Badiou might disagree: ‘[O]ne of the most forceful aspects of [Badiou's] Being and Event resides in the way in which it uses mathematics itself to effect a liberation from the limits of calculatory reason, a gesture altogether more powerful than any external critique of calculation in the name of some supposedly superior register of philosophical thought. […] for there is no fundamental episode of philosophy since Plato that has not proceeded via a re-interpretation of its originary alliance with mathematics.’ CitationMeillassoux, After Finitude, 103.
14Citationde Grainville, The Last Man, 135.
15CitationBlanchot, The Last Man, 86.
16 Ibid., 86.
17 On this theme, see my “(Auto)thanatography or (Auto)thanatology?”.
18 An incongruous insertion (though more is said in the paper's third section on the relevance of incongruity effects): one of the best-known lines from the Harry Potter books turns on making oneself unobservable. ‘I'll be in my room, making no noise and pretending I'm not there.’ CitationRowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 11.
19CitationCrittenden, Unreality, 1–2.
20 Ibid, 1–2.
21 Ibid., 7, 99.
22 Quoted in ibid., 98–99.
23CitationDerrida, ““The Fiction of the World””, 1–2.
24CitationHarman, “Object-Oriented Philosophy”, 94, hereafter OOP with page references in the text.
25CitationMeillassoux, After Finitude, 6–7.
26CitationHarman, “Objects, Matter, Sleep, and Death”, 207, hereafter OMSD in page references in the text.
27CitationHarman, “Space, Time, and Essence”, hereafter STE in page references in the text.
28CitationMeillassoux, After Finitude, 19.
29 See, for instance, CitationPlotnitsky, Complementarity, and the essays in the special issue of Derrida Today edited by CitationAnderson and Mansfield, which collectively bear this out.
30CitationMorton, Hyperobjects, 1.
31 Ibid., 1.
32 Ibid., 1.
33 Ibid., 2, 4.
34 Ibid., 2.
35 All quotations are from the Blu-Ray disc indicated in the Bibliography.
36 Slavoj Žižek, “Žižek on Tarkovsky's Solaris”. YouTube video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v = DNq-_unoG7c. Accessed August 1, 2014.
37 Compare CitationClark, “Derangements of Scale”, 152: ‘“the environment’” […] means, ultimately, “everything.””
38 In this respect, space is quite like khōra as Derrida describes it: ‘everlasting, not admitting destruction; providing a situation for all things that come into being, but itself apprehended without the senses by a sort of bastard reasoning, and hardly an object of belief.’ (“Khōra”, 92).
39CitationDerrida, “Khōra”, 93.
40CitationClark, “Derangements of Scale”, 153–154.
41CitationDerrida, ‘Khōra’, 96; see CitationLevinas, Existence and Existents.
42CitationMeillassoux, After Finitude, 11.
43 Ibid., 97–98.
45CitationClark, “Derangements of Scale”, 152.
46CitationKant, Critique of Practical Reason, 161–62.
47 The many texts and contexts within astronomy and astrophysics using the word ‘deconstruction’ mislead if they suggest greater openness in the reverse direction. The word tends to be deployed loosely.
48CitationDerrida, “The future of the profession or the university without condition (thanks to the “Humanities”, what couldtake place tomorrow”, 25.
49 Ibid., 25, 31, 34.
50 Ibid., 31.
51CitationArendt, The Human Condition, 1.
52 Ibid., 2–3.
53 Ibid., 3.
55 Clark, ‘Editorial’, vi.
56CitationLyotard, “Can Thought go on without a Body?”, 8.
57 See CitationClark, “What on World”, 6; , “The Ends of Man”, and “The Deconstruction of Actuality”, 536.
58CitationDerrida, “Khōra”, 89.
59 Ibid, 94–95, 97.
60CitationClark, “What on World”, 16–17; CitationSagan, xv. Kant, 162.
61CitationClark, “What on World”. 15.
62CitationDerrida, ““The Fiction of the World””, 1.
63CitationClark, “What on World”, 15; CitationSerres, Natural Contract, 121.
64CitationClark, “What on World”, 15.
65 Ibid., 15.
66CitationMeillassoux, After Finitude, 7.
67CitationClark, “What on World”, 16.
68 Ibid., 20
69 Ibid., 11.
70 Ibid., 9.
71CitationClark, “What on World”, 9.
72CitationClark, “Derangements of Scale”, 159, 164.
73 Quoted in CitationBlanchot, The Sirens' Song, 57.
74CitationDerrida, “Khōra”, 127.
75CitationMorton, “Ecology without the Present”, 231.
76CitationDerrida, ““The Fiction of the World””, 2–3.
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Ivan Callus
Ivan Callus is Associate Professor of English at the University of Malta, where he teaches courses in contemporary narrative and literary theory. His research interests include posthumanism, deconstruction and contemporary literature. He is Co-Editor of the journal CounterText (which launches in 2015) and, with Stefan Herbrechter, of the ‘Critical Posthumanisms’ series with Rodopi/Brill. E-Mail: [email protected]