By Rachel Bertsche
Whilst Rachel Bertsche first strikes to Chicago, she’s extremely joyful to eventually percentage a zipper code along with her boyfriend. yet presently upon getting married, she realizes that her new existence is lacking something: associates. definite, she has lots of BFFs—in ny and San Francisco and Boston and Washington, D.C. nonetheless, in her followed place of birth, there’s nobody to name on the final minute for lady speak over brunch or a reality-TV marathon over a bottle of wine. Taking concerns into her personal arms, Bertsche develops a plan: assembly humans in every single place from improv category to pal condominium web content, she'll pass on fifty-two friend-dates, one every week for a yr, in hopes of assembly her new ally perpetually.
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I recognized in what Blanchot calls the instant of my death this experience of immortality. I would be interested today not to recount this but to formulate it. 18520$ $CH2 12-20-13 09:11:50 PS PAGE 27 28 Discussion Between Derrida, Lacoue-Labarthe, and Nancy JD: Just a word, Jean-Luc, to complicate a bit what I said about immortality. It is true that, in the Spinozistic sense, I never feel immortal. That being said, in the sense in which Freud says that no one believes in his or her own death, that even when one is obsessed with being followed at every instant by mortality, there is something here that I cannot believe.
Allow me first of all to say straightaway and straightforwardly: I am very happy, truly, that the College is twenty years old and that I’ve been given the opportunity, the chance, to take part in the festivities and in the celebration of this event, and, more modestly, in reflections upon what came to pass, as it is put in the title chosen by Jean-Luc Nancy, and in the projections, hopes, and resolutions that this anniversary elicits for the future. The College ‘‘Twenty Years After,’’ therefore, though I shall resist the temptation to recount its history, intrigue, or drama against the backdrop of The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Vicomte of Bragelonne, which I’ve just finished rereading, with great enthusiasm as a great book and, among other things, a great history lesson and lesson in political philosophy regarding the relationship between civil society and the sovereignty of the state, the secret and public space, and so on.
18520$ $CH2 12-23-13 07:27:09 PS PAGE 29 30 Discussion Between Derrida, Lacoue-Labarthe, and Nancy also respond like the human can. I contest the certainty that the human can respond without reacting, or that the human’s response is a pure response without reaction. There is some reaction in every response . . And so, you see, I find that the concept no longer holds, no longer holds up . 4 ................. 18520$ $CH2 12-20-13 09:11:52 PS PAGE 30 chapter three Opening (2003) JACQUES DERRIDA: Since I didn’t know whether I would be able to be with you here today, and especially whether I would be able to deliver a real talk, I decided, with Franc¸ois Noudelmann, whom I would like to thank for his generosity in granting me complete freedom, to leave things up in the air until the last minute and to provide no title for what should be on my part a simple show of solidarity and symbolic friendship for a College whose existence has been dear to my heart since its birth some twenty years ago.
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