In Uncanny Rest Alberto Moreiras offers a meditation on intellectual life under the suspension of time and conditions of isolation. Focusing on his personal day-to-day experiences of the “shelter-in-place” period during the first months of the coronavirus pandemic, Moreiras engages with the limits and possibilities of critical thought in the realm of the infrapolitical—the conditions of existence that exceed average understandings of politics and philosophy. In each dated entry he works through the process of formulating a life’s worth of thought and writing while attempting to locate the nature of thought once the coordinates of everyday life have changed. Offering nothing less than a phenomenology of thinking, Moreiras shows how thought happens in and out of a life, at a certain crossroads where memories collide, where conversations with interlocutors both living and dead evolve and thinking during a suspended state becomes provisional and uncertain.
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Uncanny Rest for Antiphilosophy
- March 20, 2020
- Remark 1: The Path of the Goddess
- March 27, 2020
- March 29, 2020
- April 1, 2020 A.M.
- Remark 2. The Pandemic and the Event
- April 1, 2020 P.M.
- April 3, 2020
- April 4, 2020
- April 9, 2020
- April 12, 2020
- Remark 3: Self-precursion
- April 15, 2020
- April 16, 2020
- April 18, 2020
- April 24, 2020
- April 25, 2020
- April 28, 2020
- May 2, 2020
- May 5, 2020
- May 6, 2020
- May 7, 2020
- May 9, 2020
- May 10, 2020
- Remark 4: Fools and Free Spirits
- May 11, 2020
- May 12, 2020 A.M.
- May 12, 2020 P.M.
- May 13, 2020 A.M.
- May 13, 2020 P.M.
- May 14, 2020
- May 15, 2020
- May 16, 2020 A.M.
- May 16, 2020 P.M.
- May 17, 2020
- May 18, 2020
- May 19, 2020
- Remark 5: The Fourth Position
- May 20, 2020 A.M.
- Remark 6: An Invitation to Social Death
- May 20, 2020 P.M.
- Remark 7: Infracendence: Unpublished Fragments from Fernando Pessoa’s (Posthumous?) Milieu
- Notebook of Alberto Moreira, Heteronym
- Appendix 1. More Questions for Jorge Alemán: A Presentation for 17 Instituto de Estudios Críticos, Ciudad de México, May 25, 2020
- Appendix 2. From a Conversation with Jaime
- Appendix 3. From a Conversation with Gerardo
- Appendix 4. Alain Badiou’s Age of the Poets
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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