Jacques Derrida (1930–2004) was director of studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, and professor of humanities at the University of California, Irvine. Ginette Michaud is professor in the Département des littératures de langue française at the Université de Montréal. Joana Masó teaches French literature and composition at the University of Barcelona, where Javier Bassas teaches translation theory. Laurent Milesi is professor of English literature and critical theory at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

• Editors’ ForewordPart 1: The Traces of the VisibleThe Spatial Arts: An Interview by Peter Brunette and David WillsThinking Out of SightTrace and Archive, Image and ArtPart 2: Rhetoric of the Line: Painting, DrawingTo Illustrate, He SaidThe Philosopher’s Design: An Interview by Jérôme CoignardDrawing by DesignPregnancesTo Save the Phenomena: For Salvatore PugliaFour Ways to DrawingEcstasy, Crisis: An Interview with Valerio Adami and Roger LesgardsColor to the LetterThe “Undersides” of Painting, Writing, and Drawing: Support, Substance, Subject, Suppost, and SupplicePart 3: Spectralities of the Image: Photography, Video, Cinema, and TheaterAletheiaVideorThe Ghost Dance: An Interview by Mark Lewis and Andrew PayneCinema and Its Ghosts: An Interview by Antoine de Baecque and Thierry JousseThe SacrificeMarx Is (Quite) SomebodyThe Survivor, the Surcease, the SurgeNotesBibliography on the Arts and ArchitectureFilmographyNotes on Editors and TranslatorsIndex

“Who other than Jacques Derrida could have demonstrated with this degree of insight and lucidity the essential relationship between the visual arts and invisibility, nonappearance, absence, the night, blindness, even death? This superb collection of essays on painting, drawing, photography, video, cinema, and theater will forever transform both the way we understand Derrida and the way we look at the visual arts.”