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Introduction. Singularity : an aporetical concept -- Singularity, individuality : from anxiety to anger -- On the militarization of feeling -- Bare life and life in general : the question of "concentration" -- Psychoanalysis and the mediacy of the media -- Protection, projection, persecution -- The single trait -- Money is time : thoughts on credit and crisis -- Global inequality : the question of birthright -- Mind the cap : a singular approach to Europe -- West of Eden : after the good life -- After its kind : the biblical origins of economic theology -- Like-come again?! On Netzsche's eternal recurrence -- The future of Saussure : a signifying moment -- Anxiety, psychoanalysis, and the uncanny -- The singularity of literary cognition -- Mis-taking the measure of poetry : Hölderlin asks, Heidegger answers -- Towers and walls : building the wall of China -- Kafka's Josefine, or how a phrase can turn out -- Silencing the sirens.

WHAT CESAIRE ARTICULATES IN "DISCOURSE," AND MORE EXPLICITLY IN HIS LETTER TO THOREZ, DISTILLS THE SPIRIT THAT SWEPT THROUGH AFRICAN INTELLECTUAL CIRCLES IN THE AGE OF DECOLONIZATION. THIS PERVASIVE SPIRIT WAS WHAT NEGRITUDE WAS ALL ABOUT THEN; IT WAS NEVER A SIMPLE MATTER OF RACIAL ESSENTIALISM. THIS ARTICLE ARGUES THAT "DISCOURSE" WAS NEVER INTENDED TO BE A ROAD MAP OR A BLUEPRINT FOR REVOLUTION. IT CALLS IT POETRY AND THERFORE REVOLT. IT THEN ARGUES THAT WHILE PEOPLE NEED TO OVERTHROW ALL VESTIGES OF THE OLD COLONIAL ORDER, DESTROYING THE OLD IS JUST HALF THE BATTLE.

Natives, Aborigines, Indigenous populations, and First Nations are all appellations that assert the legitimacy of various antecessors despite the subordinate position granted to them by colonial, postcolonial and neo-colonial theories. In a perpetual quest for agency, the native has been framed within a set of representational practices that claim for a redress of grievances.Cultural, mediatized and historical representations of the native tend to fall within the boundaries of either a bottom-up or a top-down view that fits within a structuralist paradigm that rarely questions the individual