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Table of Contents to forthcoming book: The Decision Between Us: art and ethics in the time of scenes (University of Chicago Press)

18 June 2013
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Introduction

Part I: Name No One

     Chapter 1: Name No One Man

     Chapter 2: Name No One Name

Part II: Naked

     Chapter 3: Naked Sharing

     Chapter 4: Naked Image

Part III: Neutral and Unbecoming

     Chapter 5: Neutral Mourning

     Chapter 6: Unbecoming Community

 

The difference …

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The difference is that between the anonymity of the creature deprived of destiny and the hero who presides over the destiny to the point of becoming his own fate.

Marguerite Duras contrasting Georges Bataille and Jean Genet, and the figures in their works, respectively. Duras, “On Georges Bataille,” Outside: Selected Writings. Boston: Beacon Press, 1986.