The Catastrophic Imperative

Notes On Contributors Introduction: B.Biebuyck, G.Buelens, O.de Graef, D.Hoens & S.Jöttkandt Who or What Decides: For Derrida: A Catastrophic Theory of Decision; J.Hillis Miller Catastrophic Narratives and Why the 'Catastrophe' to Catastrophe Might Have Already Happened; E.Vogt Breath of Relief: Sloterdijk and the Politics of the Intimate; S.van Tuinen Man is a swarm animal; J.Clemens Notes on the Bird War: Biopolitics of the Visible (in the Era of Climate Change); T.Cohen Dialectical Catastrophe: Hegel's Allegory of Physiognomy and the Ethics of Survival; P.Moll Catastrophe, Citationality and the Limits of Responsibility in Disgrace ; G.Buelens Unpredictable Inevitability and the Boundaries of Psychic Life; D.Nobus Who is Nietzsche?; A.Badiou Is Pleasure a Rotten Idea?; A.Schuster Nationalist Ext(im)asy: Maurice Barrès and the Roots of Fascist Enjoyment; G.Chaitin Topography of the Border: Derrida Rewriting Transcendental Aesthetics; J.Hodge Index