The epoch of representation is as old as the West. Indeed,
representation is the West, understood as what at once designates
and expands its own limits. But what comes after the West? What
comes after representation's disclosure of its own limit? The
central problem posed in these essays, collected from over a decade
of work, is how in the wake of Western ontologies to conceive the
coming, the birth that characterizes being. We are now at the limit
of representation, where objects as we experience them have been
show to be merely objects of representation-or rather, of
presentation, since there is nothing to (re)present. The first part
of this book, "Existence," asks how, today, one can give sense of
meaning to existence as such, arguing that existence itself, as it
comes nude into the world, must now be our "sense." In examining
what this birth to presence might be, we should not ask what
presence "is"; rather we should conceive presence as presence to
someone, including to presence itself. This birth is not the
constitution of an identity, but the endless departure of an
identity from, and from within, its other, or others. Its coming is
not desire but jouissance, the joy of averring oneself to be
continually in the state of being born-a rejoicing of birth, a
birth of rejoicing. The second section, "Poetry," asks: What art
exposes this? In writing, in the voice, in painting? And what if
art is exposed to it? How does it inscribe (or rather, "exscribe,"
in a term the book develops) the coming existence as such? The
author's trajectory in this book crosses those of Hegel, Schlegel,
Baudelaire, Nietzsche, Freud, and Heidegger, in their comments on
art and politics, existence and corporeality, everyday life and its
modes of existence and ecstasy. An analysis that dares this
crossing involves all the varied accounts of existence, political
as well as philosophical, and all the realms of poverty.
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