Garnet C. Butchart is Assistant Professor of Communication and Rhetorical Studies at Duquesne University.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 The Wager of Communication (as Revealed by Psychoanalysis)2 The Ban of Language and Law of Communication3 Of Communication and-as Immunization4 Body as Index5 What Remains to Be Thought: Community, or Being-WithEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex

“Garnet C. Butchart convincingly shows that we are always in communication and that one of its primary operative functions is immunization, a concept Butchart borrows from Roberto Esposito. Communication, paradoxically, is what restricts and enables, what is both threat and defense, exposure and shoring up, contamination and protection. An indispensable book for those wanting to understand the contribution of contemporary continental philosophy to our understanding of the communicative constitution of reality.”—François Cooren, author of Action and Agency in Dialogue: Passion, Incarnation, and Ventriloquism

Garnet C. Butchart is Assistant Professor of Communication and Rhetorical Studies at Duquesne University.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 The Wager of Communication (as Revealed by Psychoanalysis)2 The Ban of Language and Law of Communication3 Of Communication and-as Immunization4 Body as Index5 What Remains to Be Thought: Community, or Being-WithEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex

“Garnet C. Butchart convincingly shows that we are always in communication and that one of its primary operative functions is immunization, a concept Butchart borrows from Roberto Esposito. Communication, paradoxically, is what restricts and enables, what is both threat and defense, exposure and shoring up, contamination and protection. An indispensable book for those wanting to understand the contribution of contemporary continental philosophy to our understanding of the communicative constitution of reality.”—François Cooren, author of Action and Agency in Dialogue: Passion, Incarnation, and Ventriloquism

Garnet C. Butchart is Assistant Professor of Communication and Rhetorical Studies at Duquesne University.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 The Wager of Communication (as Revealed by Psychoanalysis)2 The Ban of Language and Law of Communication3 Of Communication and-as Immunization4 Body as Index5 What Remains to Be Thought: Community, or Being-WithEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex

“Garnet C. Butchart convincingly shows that we are always in communication and that one of its primary operative functions is immunization, a concept Butchart borrows from Roberto Esposito. Communication, paradoxically, is what restricts and enables, what is both threat and defense, exposure and shoring up, contamination and protection. An indispensable book for those wanting to understand the contribution of contemporary continental philosophy to our understanding of the communicative constitution of reality.”—François Cooren, author of Action and Agency in Dialogue: Passion, Incarnation, and Ventriloquism