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Pages: 208

Illustrations: 11 illustrations

Published: December 2022

Author: Alberto Moreiras

In Uncanny Rest Alberto Moreiras offers a meditation on intellectual life under the suspension of time and conditions of isolation. Focusing on his personal day-to-day experiences of the “shelter-in-place” period during the first months of the coronavirus pandemic, Moreiras engages with the limits and possibilities of critical thought in the realm of the infrapolitical—the conditions of existence that exceed average understandings of politics and philosophy. In each dated entry he works through the process of formulating a life’s worth of thought and writing while attempting to locate the nature of thought once the coordinates of everyday life have changed. Offering nothing less than a phenomenology of thinking, Moreiras shows how thought happens in and out of a life, at a certain crossroads where memories collide, where conversations with interlocutors both living and dead evolve and thinking during a suspended state becomes provisional and uncertain.

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“In the form of a philosophical diary that alternates personal references and moments of deep reflection, Alberto Moreiras converses with the major contemporary thinkers, weaving an original exchange with them. He rethinks great words, such as existence, community, and decision in the light of the event that has radically changed our form of life in these past years.” - Roberto Esposito, Professor, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa

“The prolific and brilliant Alberto Moreiras has always pushed at the limits of what it means to be a thinker and scholar today. He uses his signature concept of the infrapolitical as a way to discuss themes of freedom and confinement and the relations of thought and concrete existence. His ambition here is not just to offer insights into difficult philosophical material, but to invent something of a new academic form that is tied to the experience of the COVID-19 pandemic. Uncanny Rest has a definite and quite gripping sense of someone existentially engaged and interpellated by all the issues raised: these are not objects of detached scholarly attention, but part and parcel of a life lived in thought.” - Geoffrey Bennington, author of Scatter 2: Politics in Deconstruction

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Alberto Moreiras is Professor of Hispanic Studies at Texas A&M University and author of The Exhaustion of Difference: The Politics of Latin American Cultural Studies, also published by Duke University Press, Against Abstraction: Notes from an Ex-Latin Americanist, and Infrapolitics: A Handbook.

Camila Moreiras is a translator, artist, and filmmaker.

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Preface  ix
March 20, 2020  3
Remark 1: The Path of the Goddess
March 27, 2020  7
March 29, 2020  7
April 1, 2020 A.M.  8
Remark 2: The Pandemic and the Event
April 1, 2020 P.M.  15
April 3, 2020  17
April 4, 2020  18
April 9, 2020  21
April 12, 2020  23
Remark 3: Self-precursion
April 15, 2020  26
April 16, 2020  30
April 18, 2020  32
April 24, 2020  35
April 25, 2020  38
April 28, 2020  39
May 2, 2020  39
May 5, 2020  41
May 6, 2020  43
May 7, 2020  47
May 9, 2020  48
May 10, 2020  50
Remark 4: Fools and Free Spirits
May 11, 2020  57
May 12, 2020 A.M.  59
May 12, 2020 P.M.  61
May 13, 2020 A.M.  62
May 13, 2020 P.M.  64
May 14, 2020  68
May 15, 2020  72
May 16, 2020 A.M.  73
May 16, 2020 P.M.  78
May 17, 2020  84
May 18, 2020 88
May 19, 2020  88
Remark 5: The Fourth Position
May 20, 2020 A.M.  98
Remark 6: An Invitation to Social Death
May 20, 2020 P.M.  106
Remark 7: Infracendence: Unpublished Fragments from Fernando Pessoa’s (Posthumous?) Milieu
Notebook of Alberto Moreira, Heteronym
Appendix 1. More Questions for Jorge Alemán: A Presentation for 17 Instituto de Estudios Críticos, Ciudad de México, May 25, 2020  123
Appendix 2. From a Conversation with Jaime  127
Appendix 3. From a Conversation with Gerardo  131
Appendix 4. Alain Badiou's Age of the Poets  139
Notes  165
Bibliography  183
Index  189

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Paper ISBN: 978-1-4780-1902-2 / Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4780-1638-0 / eISBN: 978-1-4780-2365-4 / DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478023654