In the Name of the Event: The Deconstructive Conjuration

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1 Jacques Derrida, ‘The University without Condition’ in Without Alibi [2001], ed. Peggy Kamuf (Stanford: Stanford University Press 2002), pp. 204. 2 Jacques Derrida, Rogues. Two Essays on Reason [2003], trans. Pascale-Anne Brault and Michael Naas (Stanford: Stanford University Press 2005). 3 Jacques Derrida, Rogues, pp.xiii-xiv 4 See Jacques Derrida, Rogues, p.4: ‘The oath would go like this: oui il ya de l'amitié à penser; yes there is friendship to (be) thought.’ 5 See Jacques Derrida, Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, The Work of Mourning and the New International [1993], trans. Peggy Kamuf (London and New York: Routledge, 1994), p.29: ‘Hamlet declares “The time is out of joint” precisely at the moment of the oath, of the injunction to swear, to swear together [conjurer], at the moment in which the specter, who is always a sworn conspirator [conjuré], one more time, from beneath, from beneath the earth or beneath the stage, has just ordered: “Swear.” And the sworn conspirators swear together (“They swear”).’ 6 See Jacques Derrida, Specters of Marx, p.185: ‘The oaths, the calls to swear, the injuctions and the conjurations that then proliferate – as in all of the plays of Shakespeare, who was a great thinker and great poet of the oath… ’. 7 Jacques Derrida, Rogues, p.xiv. 8 Jacques Derrida, Rogues, p.xi. 9 Jacques Derrida, Rogues, pp.10-11. 10 Jacques Derrida, Rogues, p.xiv. 11 On the ‘carelessness’ of the event see Jacques Derrida, ‘Typewriter Ribbon: Limited Ink (2)’ in Without Alibi, pp.146: ‘But one should also know that wherever there is some performative, that is, in the strict Austinian sense of the term, the mastery in the first person present of an “I can”, “I may” guaranteed and legitimated by conventions, well, then all pure eventness is neutralized, muffled, suspended. What happens, by definition, what comes about in an unforeseeable and singular manner, couldn't care less about the performative.’ 12 Jacques Derrida, Rogues, p.13. 13 Jacques Derrida, Rogues, p.12: ‘Before any sovereignty of the state, of the nation-state, of the monarch, or, in democracy, of the people, ipseity names a principle of legitimate sovereignty, the accredited or recognized supremacy of a power or a force, a kratos or a cracy.’ 14 Jacques Derrida, Rogues, p.14. 15 Jacques Derrida, Rogues, pp.83-84. 16 Jacques Derrida, Rogues, p.84. 17 Jacques Derrida, Rogues, p.84. 18 Jacques Derrida, Rogues, p.86. 19 Jacques Derrida, Rogues, p.87. 20 Jacques Derrida, Rogues, p.87. 21 Jacques Derrida, Rogues, p.87. 22 Jacques Derrida, Rogues, p.88. 23 Jacques Derrida, Rogues, p.135. 24 Jacques Derrida, Rogues, p.135. 25 Jacques Derrida, Rogues, p.135. 26 Jacques Derrida, Rogues, p.135. 27 Jacques Derrida, Rogues, pp.141-142. 28 Jacques Derrida, Rogues, pp.141-142. 29 Jacques Derrida, Rogues, p.142. 30 Jacques Derrida, Rogues, p.142. 31 Jacques Derrida, Rogues, p.143. 32 Jacques Derrida, Rogues, p.143. 33 Jacques Derrida, Rogues, p.144. 34 See Jacques Derrida, Rogues, pp.149-150. 35 Jacques Derrida, Rogues, p.148. 36 Jacques Derrida, Rogues, pp.148-149. 37 Jacques Derrida, Rogues, p.148. 38 Jacques Derrida, Rogues, p.150. 39 Jacques Derrida, Rogues, p.151. 40 Jacques Derrida, Rogues, p.151. 41 See Jacques Derrida, Rogues, p.151: ‘Although I cannot demonstrate this here, I believe – and the stakes are becoming more and more urgent – that none of the conventionally accepted limits between the so-called human living being and the so-called animal one, none of the oppositions, none of the supposedly linear and indivisible boundaries, resist a rational deconstruction’. 42 Jacques Derrida, Rogues, p.158. 43 Jacques Derrida, Rogues, p.158. 44 Jacques Derrida, Rogues, p.159.