Abstract
This essay stems from a single, quasi-microscopic motivic cell: the French preposition à. Examining its philosophical more so than its syntactical uses, Irving Goh stresses the pre-positional force it discreetly conveys, urging us to parse it in a literal sense. For inasmuch as à arises before (‘pre-’) a position is pinpointed or assumed, it cannily lends itself to the broader critique of positionality that is undertaken here. Contra the xenophobia that Goh believes to be constitutive of our political moment, à is meant to embody a nomadic principle of dislocation, one that moves to(wards) ever more openness and otherness. Roaming far and wide, à thus also eludes the central position it is consistently afforded throughout the essay, which makes for a startling paradox. Yet the author is attentive to this pitfall, reminding us that his aim is not to abolish positionality altogether but rather to ensure that existence loses...
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