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Preface
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2020
Reading the Figural, or, Philosophy after the New Media
A good book," writes Jean-François Lyotard in Discours, figure, "would be one where linguistic time (the time of signification and of reading) would itself be deconstructed: that the reader could start wherever s/he wishes and in whatever order, a book for grazing" (18; my translation). Like Lyotard's Discours, figure, this is not a good book, an artist's book, but rather a book of philosophy that still dreams of signification. But perhaps philosophy can operate its own figural discourse: that
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