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Jacques Derrida remains a leading voice of philosophy, his works still resonating today—and for more than three decades, one of the main sites of Derridean deconstruction has been the arts. Collecting nineteen texts spanning from 1979 to 2004, Thinking out of Sight brings to light Derrida’s most inventive ideas about the making of visual artworks.The book is divided into three sections. The first demonstrates Derrida’s preoccupation with visibility, image, and space. The second contains interviews and collaborations with artists on topics ranging from the politics of color to the components of painting. Finally, the book delves into Derrida’s writings on photography, video, cinema, and theater, ending with a text published just before his death about his complex relationship to his own image. With many texts appearing for the first time in English, Thinking out of Sight helps us better understand the critique of representation and visibility throughout Derrida’s work, and, most importantly, to assess the significance of his insights about art and its commentary.
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.”
Hélène Cixous, Emerita) Cixous, Helene (Director of the Centre d'Etudes Feminines, Universite Paris VIII, Marta Segarra, Joana Masó, University of Barcelona) Segarra, Marta (Director, University of Barcelona) Maso, Joana (Associate Scholar, Centre Dona i Literatura (Women and Literature)