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Book SynopsisTrade Review"To the now of the point, Heidegger opposes the ecstasy of time. For the past of the point, Deleuze substitutes becoming without history. Both, Peter Szendy objects, are but different ways of punctuating. Cuts, blows, silences, blanks: these stigmata are all irreducible, as are punctuation marks in a text. From ontology to linguistics, from learned treatise to comic book, the grace of this fascinating text brings being back to the infinity of its cut." -- -Catherine Malabou Kingston University "Peter Szendy's brilliant reflections on the punctuation of experience make for a magnificent composition: a new philosophy of the sensible focused on how one feels oneself feeling, and an investigation of 'how one makes a point' philosophically and emotively. Never before have exclamation points, dashes, interrogatives, full stops, and quotation marks been treated so existentially; never before has the musicality of existence been so keenly tied to its notation; never before has the distance between points been used so effectively as a measure of life-span. In the "pows!" and "blams" of comic-book blows, glimmers of political violence come into focus. This is an amazing work of philosophy, aesthetics, media, and critique!!!" -- -Emily Apter New York University
Table of ContentsStigmatology From the Rubrica to the Smiley, A Portable History The Point of (No) Monument, or Tristram's Cut (Un)pointings P.S.: On Restitching (Lacan vs. Derrida) Phrasing, Or the Holes in Meaning The Dotted Lines of Auscultation Monauralisms, Or the Bubble of Quotation Marks Punctum Saliens, or the Salient Point The Point of the Overcast Stitch Ekphrasis General Chatter Punctuation and Politics, Or the Dot Above the I Final Survey
