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 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.
Editors’ Foreword
Part 1: The Traces of the Visible
The Spatial Arts: An Interview by Peter Brunette and David
Wills
Thinking Out of Sight
Trace and Archive, Image and Art
Part 2: Rhetoric of the Line: Painting, Drawing
To Illustrate, He Said
The Philosopher’s Design: An Interview by Jérôme Coignard
Drawing by Design
Pregnances
To Save the Phenomena: For Salvatore Puglia
Four Ways to Drawing
Ecstasy, Crisis: An Interview with Valerio Adami and Roger
Lesgards
Color to the Letter
The “Undersides” of Painting, Writing, and Drawing: Support,
Substance, Subject, Suppost, and Supplice
Part 3: Spectralities of the Image: Photography, Video, Cinema,
and Theater
Aletheia
Videor
The Ghost Dance: An Interview by Mark Lewis and Andrew Payne
Cinema and Its Ghosts: An Interview by Antoine de Baecque and
Thierry Jousse
The Sacrifice
Marx Is (Quite) Somebody
The Survivor, the Surcease, the Surge
Notes
Bibliography on the Arts and Architecture
Filmography
Notes on Editors and Translators
Index
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.
“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.”
*Michael Naas, DePaul University*
“This wonderful collection brings together several of Derrida’s
most beautiful and wildly engaging thoughts on the visual and
performing arts. Many of the essays, lectures, and interviews are
presented here for the first time in English, and others are even
published for the first time anywhere. Together, not only do they
delineate the relations among drawing, painting, photography, film,
theater, and writing, but they also suggest that the arts are never
just art; they are different modes of thinking and writing. This
collection offers an exquisitely rich introduction to Derrida’s
singular contribution to the arts of reading and thinking.”
*Eduardo L. Cadava, Princeton University*
"This wide-ranging collection of essays, lectures, and interviews,
shows philosopher Jacques Derrida (Acts of Religion) (1930–2004)
applying his signature deconstructionist thinking to the visual
arts...Philosophically minded readers will find much to consider in
the way of art criticism."
*Publisher's Weekly*
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