The Fragile Skin of the World
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Certain philosophers of Antiquity compared the world to a large animal; but if the world were an animal, it would have a skin similar to the skin that envelops each living being and gives it unity. The world is neither an animal nor a machine but an interminable jumble whose destination is nothing other than the maelstrom in which the very idea of the world slips away. The world has no skin other than the turbulence that makes histories, customs, moments of grandeur and decadence. Because it is not a skin, this extension of space-time is much more fragile than the skins that are already always fragile, because everything here touches its extremities. The world is everything that passes between us – ourselves and everything that happens to us, everything that becomes of our contacts, our gazes, our movements; and through referrals from skin to skin, from the fleeting to the immemorial, you reach, without even knowing it, the entire actuality of the world: the act of its existence. This act is made up of works and disasters, splendours, horrors, and catastrophes. As long as it is ours, it is the act of an infinite emergence that is all the sense there is: a sense that incessantly goes from skin to skin and is itself never enveloped by anything. The texts in this volume are all oriented by the concern for what is currently happening to us – we, late humanoids – when we arrive at an extremity of our history, whether this extremity should turn out to be a stage, a rupture, or quite simply a last breath.
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Jean-Luc Nancy. The Fragile Skin of the World
Table of Contents
Guide
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The Fragile Skin of the World
Copyright Page
Acknowledgements
Epigraph
Notes
Overture. 1
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Notes
I A Time to Come without Past or Future1. 1
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II From Ontology to Technology. 1. Illogical Technology
2. Automation, Alteration10
3. From Ontology to Technology14. a
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Coda
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III Juan Manuel Garrido Not the Universal, but the Unknown1. 1. Life as the Production of Knowledge
2. Carelessness of the Self
3. The Sharing of the Unknown
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IV Right Here in the Present1
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V The Accident and the Season1. 1
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VI Jean-Christophe Bailly Havâ / Zamân
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VII The Fragile Skin of the World1. 1
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VIII Taking on Board1 (Of the World and of Singularity)2
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Jean-Luc Nancy
With a poem by Jean-Christophe Bailly
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Our history is at once opening and closing. The refugees who are here are at once foreigners and at home. ‘At home’ at once slides into the past and disperses itself in the time to come. It was always that way, but now it has been declared: it is open right in front of us.
The linear advance of the techno-economy at once locks the time to come within a calculable future and reveals its own aimlessness. What we call ‘the destruction of nature’ in fact destroys the very element that drives forth technics:8 this is the greatest point of tension, the issue most laden with anguish and expectation. If what is at stake is indeed self-destruction, then it is every bit as possible for the latter to consist of an annihilation as of a strong tremor that has come from elsewhere (elsewhere: where? Right here, of course).
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