Table of Contents
Acknowledgements4
Introduction Hoc nihil ad rem 6
Chapter I: The Event of the Thing: 'Ereignis in Abyss' 13
I.1. Protocols of the thing: That the event will have been possible 14
I.1.1It's virtually happening…15
I.1.2Double affirmative, double perhaps24
I.2. In-to the things themselves! 33
I.2.1'What' 'is' 'inside' 'the' 'thing'? 33
I.2.2The event of expropriation, or how the thing 'spirits away'41
I.3. The literary and the poetic: A name without the thing and the things without a name 50
Chapter II: 'This Thing Regards Us': The Promise of 'Reified' Intentionality 60
II.1. The real of intentionality and the intentionality of the real 61
II.1.1The real of intentionality: Noema and hyle 61
II.1.2The intentionality of the real: Res nostra agitur 67
II.2. The thing of the senses 78
II.2.1Not-hearing-oneself-speak78
II.2.2The imperative for thinking the hand86
II.3. Being read: Under the eye of the text 93
Chapter III: Deconstruction of Fetishism: The Love and the Work of the Thing 101
III.1. For the love of the thing: Derrida's psychoanalysis 102
III.1.1Who/what is analyzed in psychoanalysis?103
III.1.2Psychoanalysis and resistanceof the (non-idealized) mother111
III.1.3How to love the thing, or what does psychoanalysis resist?122
III.2.The thing at work: On commodity fetishism, or the “phenomenology of value”130
III.2.1The enframing (of) value130
III.2.2Money, credit, and other 'counterfeit things'140
III.2.3Becoming-thing of the thing, becoming-world of the world148
Chapter IV: On the Thing that Deconstructs Aesthetics 154
IV.1. Style, the signature of the thing 155
IV.1.1The point of style155
IV.1.2Spongy stones, stony sponges, and the countersignature of the thing 160
IV.1.3Painting with an auto-affective eye (“double vision”)165
IV.2. Subjectile, the 'epoch' of the thing 172
IV.2.1Reductio ad rerum: In the memory of…172
IV.2.2Thrown together: The artist and the thing178
IV.2.3Instead of arriving: 'The bottom without bottom of things'186
IV.3. Parergon, the thing alongside the work 192
Conclusion: Post-Deconstructive Realism: Of What Remains 199
Abbreviation Key 209
Notes 213
