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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.

Poststructuralism and complexity are plural and diverse modes of thought that share a common subscription to the `anteriority of radical relationality'. They nonetheless subscribe to a different ethic of life because they address the anteriority of radical relationality in different ways. Complexity remains strategic in its bid to become a power-knowledge of the laws of becoming. It derives that strategic ethic from its scientific interest in the implicate order of non-linearity that is said to subvert Newtonian science. Poststructuralism is poetic. It derives its poetic ethic from Heidegger and from the reworking of orphic and tragic sensibilities to radical relationality with the radically non-relational. Observing that all poetry is complexity avant la lettre, the article illustrates these points with the Odyssey and concludes that while complexity is ultimately concerned with fitness, poststructuralism is preoccupied with justice.

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.