Catastrophic Imperative

ALAIN BADIOU is Chair of Philosophy, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, FranceBENJAMIN BIEBUYCK is Professor of German Literature, Ghent University, BelgiumGIL CHAITIN is Professor Emeritus of French and Comparative Literature, Indiana University, Bloomington, USAJUSTIN CLEMENS is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Melbourne, AustraliaTOM COHEN is Professor of American literary, critical, and cinematic studies, the State University of New York, Albany, USAORTWIN DE GRAEF is Professor of English Literature and Literary Theory, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, BelgiumJOANNA HODGE is Professor of Philosophy co-ordinating research at Manchester Metropolitan University, UKJ. HILLIS MILLER is UCI Distinguished Research Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of California at Irvine, USAPATIENCE MOLL is currently Teaching Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Dundee, UKDANY NOBUS is Head of the School of Social Sciences and Professor of Psychoanalytic Psychology at Brunel University, UKAARON SCHUSTER is a graduate of Amherst College, USA, and is currently completing his Ph.D. in philosophy at KU Leuven, BelgiumSJOERD VAN TUINEN is a researcher in the Department for Philosophy and Moral Science at Ghent University, BelgiumERIK VOGT is Associate Professor of Philosophy, Trinity College, Hartford, USA and Universitaets-Dozent for Philosophy, University of Vienna, Austria

• 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