Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Future, Heteronomy, Invention 1
5. Part I THE NEW AND ITS RISKS
6. 1. Life and Event: Deleuze on Newness 17
7. 2. A Precursor: Limiting the Future, Affirming Particularity 29
8. 3. Visual Parrhesia? Foucault and the Truth of the Gaze 45
9. Part II RHETORIC AND THE FUTURE OF THE POLITICAL
10. 4. Articulation and the Limits of Metaphor 61
11. 5. Answering for Sense 84
12. 6. “Human” in the Age of Disposable People: The Ambiguous Import of Kinship and Education in Blind Shaft 94
13. Part III HETERONOMY AND FUTURITY IN PSYCHOANALYSIS
14. 7. The Foreign, the Uncanny, and the Foreigner: Concepts of the Self and the Other in Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Philosophy 109
15. 8. An Impossible Embrace: Queerness, Futurity, and the Death Drive 122
16. 9. Luce Irigaray and the Question of Critique 141
17. Part IV INVENTIONS
18. 10. Parapoetics and the Architectural Leap 161
19. 11. The Future of Literature: Complex Surfaces of Electronic Texts and Print Books 180
20. 12. Crisis Means Turning Point: A Manifesto for Art and Accountability 210
21. Notes 227
22. Contributors 265
23. Index 269