5 Postscript: Deconstruction and Love

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Notes on Contributors viii
5. Acknowledgements xii
6. Lapping It Up: An Introduction for these Erotics of Deconstruction 1
7. Part I Procreativity
8. 1. Derrida’s Tongues 15
9. 2 Spoonful: The Dorsal Deconstruction of Eroticism 35
10. 3 Two Pirouettes: The Politics of Spoiling (for) Fun in Preciado’s Revolutionary Vitalism and Derrida’s Death Drive 53
11. 4 Double Blind Date 72
12. 5 Postscript: Deconstruction and Love 91
13. Part II Vulnerability
14. 6. Sanguine Resistance: Dreaming of a Future for Blood 111
15. 7 Touch, Flesh, Wound and the Caress of the Screen 134
16. 8 No Deconstruction Without Pleasure: Openings, Tunnels and Holes 153
17. 9 Bodies in E-motion: Kofman and Cixous Encountering Rembrandt 170
18. 10 Voice and Sextuality 188
19. Part III Panthropology
20. 11. The Masturbating Animal: The Auto-hetero-affection of the Living 215
21. 12 Playing the Field: Non-nonbinary Promiscuity 236
22. 13 ‘Gene for Gene’: Cloning, ‘Sexiness’ and the (Post)Maternal in Carola Dibbell’s The Only Ones 256
23. 14 Erotics of Decomposition: Cells and their Oceans 275
24. Index 296