9. Presentness and the "Being-Only-Once" of Architecture

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Contributors ix
5. Deconstruction is/as Neopragmatism? 1
6. The Time is Out of Joint 14
7. I. The Time of Analysis
8. 1. Deconstruction and the Lyric 41
9. 2. Reading Epitaphs 52
10. 3. Upping the Ante: Deconstruction as Parodic Practice 60
11. II. The Point of Teaching
12. 4. The Disputed Ground: Deconstruction and Literary Studies 79
13. 5. Une drôle de classe de philo 87
14. 6. Going Public: The University in Deconstruction 95
15. III. The Politics of Singularity
16. 7. Possibilizations, in the Singular 115
17. 8. Writing Resistances 125
18. 9. Presentness and the "Being-Only-Once" of Architecture 134
19. IV. The Performance of Difference
20. 10. Burning Acts: Injurious Speech 149
21. 11. Republic, Rhetoric, and Sexual Difference 181
22. 12. The Test Drive 200
23. V. A New Sense of the Political
24. 13. Ghost Writing 223
25. 14. The Form of Politics 228
26. 15. At the Planchette of Deconstruction is/in America 237
27. 16. Jaded in America 250