Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Notes

Part I: The Archaeology of Indifference

Chapter One: The Signature of All Things, Paradigms and Signatures

The Method and Its Aims

What Is a Paradigm?

Analogic: To the Side

Grammar as Performative Example of Intelligibility

Note on Communicability

Example and Exclusion

Paradigmatic, Poietic Dialectic

Phenomenological Hermeneutics: The Paradigmatic Circle

Theory of Signatures

Foucault’s Statements as Signatures

Ontological Epistemology

Signatory Displacement

Indifferent Marking, Potential and Privation

Signature as Critical Philosophy: Derrida versus Deleuze

Notes

Chapter Two: Philosophical Archaeology

Archē: Philosophical Archaeology

Repression

The Moment of Arising

Benjaminian Now-Time and Dialectics at a Standstill

Note on Nymphs and Plates

Statements—Paradigms—Signatures

Badiou and Set Theory

Philosophical Archaeology

Notes

Chapter Three: Language and Death: Indifferent Difference as Such in Hegel and Heidegger

The Three Ages of Indifference

Second-Order Indifference: Pure Difference as Such

Heidegger: Heeding the Difference as Difference

*Se: What Is Proper

Hegelian Absolute and the Apotropaic Economy of the Dialectic

Ereignis and the Unsayable in Heidegger

Notes

Chapter Four: The Coming Community: An Essay on Indifferent Singularities

Whatever

Example

Being-Named

Space and Time

Temporal Indifference: The Time That Remains

Paradigms of Space: Ease and Halos

Taking Place Outside

Notes

Chapter Five: Towards a Deictic Ontology or Being-Thus As-Such

Pseudonym

The Irreparable

Deictic Ontology: The Thus and the As-Such

As Such

Notes

Part II: Difference and Indifference

Chapter Six: Derrida and Agamben: Différance Makes Indifference Communicable

Stanzas and Signification

Language and Death and Voice

Naming Naming as Such and Derrida’s Undecidables

Khōra or Matter as the Taking-Place

Différance Makes Agambenian Indifference Communicable

Law and Messianism

Syncategorematic Thinking: And

Notes

Chapter Seven: Potentiality, Virtuality and Impotentiality, Agamben and Deleuze

Potentiality—Impotentiality

Impotentiality as Paradigm of Indifference

Darkness Visible

Deleuzian Virtuality and Potentiality

Differentiating Deleuze and Agamben through Indifference

Notes

Chapter Eight: The Two Bartlebies: Deleuze, Agamben and Immanence

A Life as Impersonal Indifference

Vitalism as Impotentiality

Beatitude of Self-Predication

Agamben’s Philosophy of Life to Come

Creation from the Abyss

The Formula: I Prefer Not To

Agamben on Deleuze on Bartleby

Contingency

Messianic Decreation

The Two Bartlebies Part Ways

Notes

Part III: The Indifference of Indifference: Politics, Language, Life

Chapter Nine: Homo Sacer and the Politics of Indifference

Homo Sacer Redux

The Signature of Life

Homo Sacer and the Problem of the First Paradigm

A New Politics of Indifference

Homo Sacer as Philosophical Archaeology

Note on Suspension of Suspension

Indistinction-Indifference

Speculation on the Formation of Signatures

The Logic of Exception: Included Exclusion

Example: Agamben and Badiou

The Ban: Nonrelational Relationality

Notes

Chapter Ten: The Kingdom and the Glory: The Articulated Inoperativity of Power

Auctoritas and Potestas: The Complete Articulation of Power

From the Paradigm to the Signature

Oikonomia: The Signatory Praxis of Articulating Comutual Cointelligibility

The Providential Machine

Glory: Articulated Inoperativity

Inoperativity: The Indifferentiation of Indifference

Threshold: The Aesthetics of Indifference (Poetry as Signature)

Notes

Chapter Eleven: The Sacrament of Language: Language as Communicability

Wittgenstein’s Public Language Theory

The Sustained Question of What It Means for Human Beings to Have Language

Acclamation and the Oath

Performativity

An Archaeology of the Oath

Infancy and History: The Human Capacity for Language

Deixis

The Sign and the Stanza: The Bar and the Box

Language as Signature: A Conclusion

Notes

Conclusion: The End of Lying, the Birth of Living

The Operativity of the Performative in the Oath

Assertoric and Veridictive

Apotropaicism: The End of Lying and the Birth of Living

threshold of suspension

Notes

Bibliography

Index