Surplus/event/performance: criticism as performative enactment

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Notes

1. Jacques Derrida, “I’ll Have to Wander All Alone,” trans. David Kammerman, Tympanum: A Journal of Comparative Literary Studies, 1 (1998): http://www.usc.edu/dept/comp-lit/tympanum/1/index.html.

2. Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, “May ‘68 Did Not Take Place,” in Hatred of Capitalism, ed. Kris Krauss and Sylvère Lotringer (Los Angeles: Semiotext(e), 2001): 209. See also Gilles Deleuze, Difference and Repetition, trans. Paul Patton (New York: Colombia, 1994).

3. On the thisness or haecceity of events, see Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, trans. Brian Massumi (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002): 260–65.

4. Matthew S. May, Soapbox Rebellion: The Hobo Orator Union and the Free Speech Fights of the Industrial Workers of the World, 1909–1916 (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2013), 9.

5. May, Soapbox Rebellion, 11.

6. Gilles Deleuze, Negotiations, 1972–1990, ed. Martin Joughin (New York: Colombia University Press, 1995).