Forms in the Abyss

Steve Martinot is Instructor at the Center for Interdisciplinary Programs at San Francisco State University. He is the author of The Rule of Racialization: Class, Identity, Governance (Temple), editor of two previous books, and translator of Racism by Albert Memmi.

"The project of transcoding Sartrean language into the Derridean coordinates, and vice-versa, is an unseasonable one whose reward lies in the defamiliarization of both. Martinot's minute, technical readings avoid all facile ideological generalizations and send us back to the original texts with new eyes." -Fredric Jameson

• Chapter 1: Introduction                                                                        1History and Writing The Metaphysics of a Common LanguageThe Narrative of Metaphysics The Historical Dimension A Common Uncommonality Chapter 2: The Form of Uncommon Logic                                         37Invention DiffÉranceNÉantisationOn HeideggerChapter 3 - The Parameters of Homology                                          73Extensions of the Double Non-negationSartre's Use of the Skew Relation as a Formalism Derrida's Use of the Skew Relation in his Thematics The Middle Voice Always Already Chapter 4: Form and Structure                                                          103On Form On Structure The Derridean Circle Mediation The Triadic Circle in its Historical Moment  Conclusion: The Structures of Ethnocentrism Chapter 5: The Look and its Inner Narrativizations                         150The Look The other-as-objectThe Look The Meta-narrativity of the Look A Critique and Extension of the NMN-structure The Form of Form Chapter 6: The Sartre-Derrida Homology                                        180The Inside of the Outside, the SupplementA Note on "Infrastructure" Separation in Immediacy, the HymenThe Role of NarrativeThe Social Text of the GlyphDisseminationReading the Imagination as Reading Conclusion Chapter 7: Circularities and Foundations                                        238Bringing the Incommensurable into Dialogue The ReaderThe CircleDerrida's Deconstruction of the Subject Sartre's Deconstruction of the Subject Chapter 8: A Theory of Dialogue                                                   270An Elementary Particle of the Social Being for Others as a Micro-sociusThe Boundary between Subjectivities The Ontological Structure of Dialogue The Semiotic Structure of Dialogue The Derridean Moment of the Social Listening and (Re)Construction Conclusions Chapter 9: A theory of language                                                   314Shifts in Social Semiosis The Circle and the Social The Colonial Principle Chauvinism and the Sundering of the Circle. On Metaphysics A Third Domain? The Circle as Analysand Endnotes                                                                                       357Bibliography                                                                                 427