The politics of representation: an essay in the phenomenology of expiration or theory in the era of sophisticated mindlessness

Intro -- THE POLITICS OF REPRESENTATION AN ESSAY IN THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF EXPIRATION OR THEORY IN THE ERA OF SOPHISTICATED MINDLESSNESS -- THE POLITICS OF REPRESENTATION AN ESSAY IN THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF EXPIRATION OR THEORY IN THE ERA OF SOPHISTICATED MINDLESSNESS -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- PREFACE: TWO NOTES -- NOTE 1: THE ABSENT PRESENCE -- NOTE 2: CRITICISM AND JUDGMENTALNESS -- INTRODUCTION: FRACTAL VERSUS FRAGMENT -- Chapter 1 A CONCLUSION -- Chapter 2 FROM PROTO-MODERNITY TO PSEUDO-MODERNITY: KANT AND HIS DESCENDANTS -- TOO MUCH, TOO SOON (SCHOPENHAUER) -- PHENOMENAL-PHENOMENOLOGICAL TURN (HEGEL AND HUSSERL) -- PHENOMENOLOGY OF DECEPTION (MERLEAU-PONTY AND VIRILIO) -- Chapter 3 THE POLITICS OF RE-PRESENTATION. A COLLECTION OF FRACTALS -- PHILOSOPHY IN THE ERA OF SOPHISTICATED MEANINGLESSNESS -- Chapter 4 EPILOGUE OR AFTER THE END -- Chapter 5 FROM SOPHISTICATED MEANINGLESSNESS TO SOPHISTICATED PRIMITIVISM -- THE ORIENT DREAMING OF THE OCCIDENT, THE OCCIDENT DREAMING OF THE ORIENT -- THE PRESENT OF OUR EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS -- Chapter 6 THE STATE OF MINDLESSNESS. THE RISE OF THE PSEUDO-MODERN WORLD -- RECURRENCE AND DOMINATION OF THE NON-WORLD -- NARROW-MINDED AND IRRESPONSIBLE -- SOCIOPATHY AND IDIOCY -- INCONSISTENCY, DOUBLE STANDARD, HYPOCRISY -- HATRED, REACTION, AND REVENGE -- INFERIORITY COMPLEX -- Chapter 7 IDEOLOGIES OF THE NON-WORLD. THE POST-COLONIAL AND THE SUBALTERN -- OPTIONAL APPENDIX: THE ORACLES SPEAK! (FROM BOTH SIDES OF THE OCEANS) -- INDEX -- Blank Page

Fractal versus fragment -- From proto-modernity to pseudo-modernity. Kant and his descendants -- The politics of re-presentation. a collection of fractals -- Epilogue or after the end -- From sophisticated meaninglessness to sophisticated primitivism -- The state of mindlessness. the rise of the pseudo-modern world -- Ideologies of the non-world. the post-colonial and the subaltern