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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March 20, 2020
Remark 1: The Path of the Goddess
March 27, 2020
March 29, 2020
April 1, 2020 A.M.
Remark 2: The Pandemic and the Event
April 1, 2020 P.M.
April 3, 2020
April 4, 2020
April 9, 2020
April 12, 2020
Remark 3: Self-precursion
April 15, 2020
April 16, 2020
April 18, 2020
April 24, 2020
April 25, 2020
April 28, 2020
May 2, 2020
May 5, 2020
May 6, 2020
May 7, 2020
May 9, 2020
May 10, 2020
Remark 4: Fools and Free Spirits
May 11, 2020
May 12, 2020 A.M.
May 12, 2020 P.M.
May 13, 2020 A.M.
May 13, 2020 P.M.
May 14, 2020
May 15, 2020
May 16, 2020 A.M.
May 16, 2020 P.M.
May 17, 2020
May 18, 2020
May 19, 2020
Remark 5: The Fourth Position
May 20, 2020 A.M.
Remark 6: An Invitation to Social Death
May 20, 2020 P.M.
Remark 7: Infracendence: Unpublished Fragments from Fernando Pessoa’s (Posthumous?)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
Appendix 2. From a Conversation with Jaime
Appendix 3. From a Conversation with Gerardo
Appendix 4. Alain Badiou's Age of the Poets
Notes
Bibliography
Index
