Table of Contents

Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Prologue
Abbreviations
1: Re-signing History, De-signing Ethics
The Historian's Promise
Historical Truth and the End of Representation
The Necessity of Naming
That Which Cannot Be Named: The Cataclysm
Historical Narrative
History as Science: L'Esprit de Geometrie et L'Esprit de Finesse
Factuality Revisited: Lies, Fiction, Ficciones
Ficciones and History: Foucault
2: Reading the Heterological Historian Reading Kant
The Nihil and Analogy
Heteronomy's Rule
The Ends of History
The Aesthetic and the Cataclysm
3: The Historical Object and the Mark of the Grapheme: Images, Simulacra, and Virtual Reality
Runaway Images
The Historian and the Camera: Still Photography
The Co-optation of the Look
History as Archive of the Moving Image
The French Revolution in Narrative and Film
Images and Information
4: Wired in the Absolute: Hegel and the Being of Appearance
The Specular Absolute and Release from the Object
Plenum and Void
Terror and Cataclysm
5: Re-membering the Past: The Historian as Time Traveler
Voyages in Time
Time's Duality: From Hegel to Nietzsche and Back
McTaggart's Paradox: Tensed and Tenseless Time
The Speech and Silence of Heterology
6: Re-membering the Past
The Tablet and the Aviary
"That This Too Too Solid Flesh Would Melt"
From "Trace" to Shining Trace
Flickering Memories: Images and Signs
La Cage aux Folles: From Tablet to Aviary and Back
The Mind Is a Bone: Skull, Brains, and Memory
Matter Matters: Brain States and Mental Acts
Differance Is in the Neurons
Ownerless Memories: Artificial Life and Biological Computers
7: The Gift of Community
Unsaying Rational Community: Autochthony and Desire
Humanity's Essence Is Production
Exteriority and Community
The Gift of the Future
The Gift of Hope
Notes
Index