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To Be Decided Remains to Be Decided

Ronald Mendoza-de JesúsUniversity of Southern California Volume 12, 2017 When I wrote to the organizers of this event and told them that the title of my intervention was “to be decided,” I could not yet see that this placeholder would have become the first part of my actual title, since I could not have yet anticipated...

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The Undecidability of the Politics of Politics: On Geoffrey Bennington’s Scatter 1

Humberto González NúñezVillanova University Volume 12, 2017 The appearance of Geoffrey Bennington’s recent book, Scatter 1: The Politics of Politics in Foucault, Heidegger, and Derrida (New York: Fordham UP, 2016), constitutes a veritable event—of reading—that offers an important intervention in contemporary philosophical thought and its political consequences. Already in the subtitle, one notices the very phrase that will play...

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An Introduction to the Dossier on Geoffrey Bennington’s Scatter 1. The Politics of Politics in Foucault, Heidegger, Derrida. (New York: Fordham UP, 2016.)

Alberto MoreirasTexas A&M University Volume 12, 2017 The meeting took place at Texas A&M on March 24, 2017. We had invited Geoffrey Bennington to present his next book project, “Scatter 2,” in the context of an ample discussion of Scatter 1. We regret the absence in this dossier of the position paper by Teresa M. Vilarós. Matías...