Philosophy & Rhetoric Jun 2024

Phantasms of Fixity and a Gesture Toward Survival

Diane Davis The University of Texas at Austin

Abstract

ABSTRACT This article addresses the ethico-political implications of “living together” as the performative articulations of a generative movement (a running morphogenesis) that rests on nothing and to which there is no outside. It argues that any social, political, or intellectual movement that does not avow this différantial movement that comprehends it—and so that does not contest phantasms of purity and presence enough to guard, in Édouard Glissant’s terms, the singularity of “the Diverse”—forecloses, in advance, any future to come and therefore the possibility of living well together.

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Philosophy & Rhetoric
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2024-06-28
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10.5325/philrhet.57.1.0121
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