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Book SynopsisFocusing on his personal day to day experiences of the shelter-in-place period during the first months of the coronavirus pandemic, Alberto Moreiras offers a meditation on intellectual life and the nature of thought under the suspension of time and conditions of isolation.
Table of ContentsPreface ix
March 20, 2020 3
Remark 1: The Path of the Goddess
March 27, 2020 7
March 29, 2020 7
April 1, 2020 A.M. 8
Remark 2: The Pandemic and the Event
April 1, 2020 P.M. 15
April 3, 2020 17
April 4, 2020 18
April 9, 2020 21
April 12, 2020 23
Remark 3: Self-precursion
April 15, 2020 26
April 16, 2020 30
April 18, 2020 32
April 24, 2020 35
April 25, 2020 38
April 28, 2020 39
May 2, 2020 39
May 5, 2020 41
May 6, 2020 43
May 7, 2020 47
May 9, 2020 48
May 10, 2020 50
Remark 4: Fools and Free Spirits
May 11, 2020 57
May 12, 2020 A.M. 59
May 12, 2020 P.M. 61
May 13, 2020 A.M. 62
May 13, 2020 P.M. 64
May 14, 2020 68
May 15, 2020 72
May 16, 2020 A.M. 73
May 16, 2020 P.M. 78
May 17, 2020 84
May 18, 2020 88
May 19, 2020 88
Remark 5: The Fourth Position
May 20, 2020 A.M. 98
Remark 6: An Invitation to Social Death
May 20, 2020 P.M. 106
Remark 7: Infracendence: Unpublished Fragments from Fernando Pessoa’s (Posthumous?) Milieu
Notebook of Alberto Moreira, Heteronym
Appendix 1. More Questions for Jorge Alemán: A Presentation for 17 Instituto de Estudios Críticos, Ciudad de México, May 25, 2020 123
Appendix 2. From a Conversation with Jaime 127
Appendix 3. From a Conversation with Gerardo 131
Appendix 4. Alain Badiou's Age of the Poets 139
Notes 165
Bibliography 183
Index 189
