Table of Contents
Acknowledgements 4
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.1.1 It's virtually happening… 15
I.1.2 Double affirmative, double perhaps 24
I.2. In-to the things themselves! 33
I.2.1 'What' 'is' 'inside' 'the' 'thing'? 33
I.2.2 The 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.1.1 The real of intentionality: Noema and hyle 61
II.1.2 The intentionality of the real: Res nostra agitur 67
II.2. The thing of the senses 78
II.2.1 Not-hearing-oneself-speak 78
II.2.2 The imperative for thinking the hand 86
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.1.1 Who/what is analyzed in psychoanalysis? 103
III.1.2 Psychoanalysis and resistance–of the (non-idealized) mother 111
III.1.3 How 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.2.1 The enframing (of) value 130
III.2.2 Money, credit, and other 'counterfeit things' 140
III.2.3 Becoming-thing of the thing, becoming-world of the world 148
Chapter IV: On the Thing that Deconstructs Aesthetics 154
IV.1. Style, the signature of the thing 155
IV.1.1 The point of style 155
IV.1.2 Spongy stones, stony sponges, and the countersignature of the thing 160
IV.1.3 Painting with an auto-affective eye (“double vision”) 165
IV.2. Subjectile, the 'epoch' of the thing 172
IV.2.1 Reductio ad rerum: In the memory of… 172
IV.2.2 Thrown together: The artist and the thing 178
IV.2.3 Instead 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
