Thomas Clément Mercier
Biographic Data
| ID | 1383801 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Clément Mercier |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas Clément |
| FAMILY NAME | Mercier |
| SIGNATURE | MERCIER T C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Adolfo Ibáñez University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3650-357X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
"The Force of the Event"
Much has been written on Derrida’s and Butler's discussions of Austin’s speech act theory, but one thing at least remains unclear: why does performativity hinge on the notion of “force,” and what “force” are we here talking about? For Austin, the force of the performative signals a performative enforcement, a validating repetition of prior conditions of legitimation: it testifies to the “felicity” or “success” of the performative event.According …
‘Rideaux rouges’
As they make their way through Louis Althusser’s and Jacques Derrida’s texts, readers will cross innumerable curtains – ‘the words and things’, as Derrida says, as many fabrics of traces. These curtains open onto a multiplicity of scenes and mises en scène, performances, roles, rituals, actors, plays – thus unfolding the space of a certain theatricality. This essay traces Althusser’s and Derrida’s respective deployments of the theatrical motif. I…
Glas Struggles
This essay stages an encounter between several texts by Jacques Derrida (notably Memoires – for Paul de Man, Life Death, and Glas) which delineate the contours of what could be called a ‘memorial agonistics’. Through readings of Marx, Nietzsche and Freud, Derrida shows that memory and commemorations always involve struggles in nomination and classification, jealous movements of appropriation and expropriation of the departed, wars in and for the …
Altérités
What's in a word?Cet article est écrit sur un mot, un bon mot de Donna Haraway.Il s'agit du mot worlding -un mot d'apparence simple, mais qui couvre un champ virtuellement infini : celui du monde ou des mondes, de leur formation ou de leur production comme mondes.Ce mot anglais, « difficile à traduire » comme l'écrit Bruno Latour, a récemment essaimé dans tout un pan de la littérature anglophone contemporaine, dans les domaines de l'anthropologie…
Immaterial Matters, or the Unconscious of Materialism
In this conversation, which took place across several months in the year 2021, Elizabeth Grosz describes her position with respect to “new materialism” and “the material turn”: while she emphasizes the necessity of materialist thought in the current situation marked by a global pandemic, she also stresses the equal importance of what she calls “the incorporeal”: an excess in and of matter, materiality’s heterogeneous virtuality, differentiality a…
Inmaterial Matters, or the Unconscious of Materialism
In this conversation, which took place across several months in the year 2021, Elizabeth Grosz describes her position with respect to “new materialism” and “the material turn”: while she emphasizes the necessity of materialist thought in the current situation marked by a global pandemic, she also stresses the equal importance of what she calls “the incorporeal”: an excess in and of matter, materiality’s heterogeneous virtuality, differentiality a…
Old and new matters
This article constitutes a substantial introduction to the thematic issue “Matters.” After introducing briefly the scattered constellation described by some as “new materialism” or “the material turn,” as well as its main concepts and methods, I offer a deconstructive reflection on “the turn” by challenging a series of theoretical gestures meant to coalesce the turn to materiality in contemporary continental philosophy—starting with the exclusion…
Re/pro/ductions
This article examines Jacques Derrida's work of self-reflection on his own teaching practice by using as a guiding thread the problematics of reproduction in the seminars of the 1970s. The first part of the article examines the sequence of seminars taught by Derrida at École normale supérieure from 1971 to 1977 to show how the concept of reproduction is deconstructed by Derrida across several seminars. Derrida systematically demonstrates, across …
Texts on Violence
Este artículo interroga cierta escena filosófica –una que se constituye a través de la posición de lo que Jacques Derrida llama “la instancia ética de la violencia”. En el curso del ensayo, analizo esta escena cuasi-jurídica a través de las lecturas de Aristóteles, Walter Benjamin y Giorgio Agamben, entre otros. La escena, construida sobre textos sobre textos sobre violencia, exige una lógica de la pureza; es recelosa de conta-minaciones y equívo…
Tele-Mournings
This thought piece dealing with the Covid-19 'crisis' was written -in the form of a diary that runs from February to July 2020 -for a special issue of Derrida Today entitled 'Fire, Flood, Pestilence and Protest', edited by Nicole Anderson, and published in November 2020.The piece deals with matters of biopolitics, telecommunication, death and mourning through Derrida and Agamben, and interrogates the eventness of what is called an 'event'
Ambivalent Promises-Reproductions of the Subject
Jacques Derrida delivered the basis of The Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning, & the New International as a plenary address at the conference 'Whither Marxism?' hosted by the University of California, Riverside, in 1993. The longer book version was published in French the same year and appeared in English and Portuguese the following year. In the decade after the publication of Specters, Derrida's analyses provoked a la…
The Truth That Hurts, or the Corps à Corps of Tongues
Evelyne Grossman: This issue of Europe dedicated to your work brings together [rassemble], as you know, contributors from various countries (Italy, Spain, Belgium, the United States, England, Egypt
À Corps
Corps À
Resisting the Present
In its hegemonic definition, biopolitical governmentality is characterised by a seemingly infinite capacity of expansion, susceptible to colonise the landscape and timescape of the living present in the name of capitalistic productivity. The main trait of biopower is its normative, legal and political plasticity, allowing it to reappropriate critiques and resistances by appealing to bioethical efficacy and biological accuracy. Under these circums…
We Have Tasted the Powers of the Age to Come
Responding to the provocative phrase ‘The Age of Grammatology’, I propose to question the notion of ‘age’, and to interrogate the powers or forces, the dynameis or dynasties attached to the interpretative model of historical periodisation. How may we think the undeniable actuality of the event beyond the sempiternal history of ages, and beyond the traditional, onto-teleological chain of power, possibility, force or dynamis that undergirds such hi…
Resisting legitimacy
In this article, I engage with Derrida's deconstructive reading of theories of performativity in order to analyse Max Weber's sovereignty–legitimacy paradigm. First, I highlight an essential articulation between legitimacy and sovereign ipseity (understood, beyond the sole example of State sovereignty, as the autopositioned power-to-be-oneself). Second, I identify a more originary force of legitimation, which remains foreign to the order of perfo…
The Truth That Hurts, or the Corps à Corps of Tongues
Evelyne Grossman: This issue of Europe dedicated to your work brings together [rassemble], as you know, contributors from various countries (Italy, Spain, Belgium, the United States, England, Egypt
We Have Tasted the Powers of the Age to Come
Responding to the provocative phrase ‘The Age of Grammatology’, I propose to question the notion of ‘age’, and to interrogate the powers or forces, the dynameis or dynasties attached to the interpretative model of historical periodisation. How may we think the undeniable actuality of the event beyond the sempiternal history of ages, and beyond the traditional, onto-teleological chain of power, possibility, force or dynamis that undergirds such hi…
Ambivalent Promises-Reproductions of the Subject
Jacques Derrida delivered the basis of The Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning, & the New International as a plenary address at the conference 'Whither Marxism?' hosted by the University of California, Riverside, in 1993. The longer book version was published in French the same year and appeared in English and Portuguese the following year. In the decade after the publication of Specters, Derrida's analyses provoked a la…
Corps À
Resisting the Present
In its hegemonic definition, biopolitical governmentality is characterised by a seemingly infinite capacity of expansion, susceptible to colonise the landscape and timescape of the living present in the name of capitalistic productivity. The main trait of biopower is its normative, legal and political plasticity, allowing it to reappropriate critiques and resistances by appealing to bioethical efficacy and biological accuracy. Under these circums…
Resisting legitimacy
In this article, I engage with Derrida's deconstructive reading of theories of performativity in order to analyse Max Weber's sovereignty–legitimacy paradigm. First, I highlight an essential articulation between legitimacy and sovereign ipseity (understood, beyond the sole example of State sovereignty, as the autopositioned power-to-be-oneself). Second, I identify a more originary force of legitimation, which remains foreign to the order of perfo…
Resisting legitimacy
In this article, I engage with Derrida's deconstructive reading of theories of performativity in order to analyse Max Weber's sovereignty–legitimacy paradigm. First, I highlight an essential articulation between legitimacy and sovereign ipseity (understood, beyond the sole example of State sovereignty, as the autopositioned power-to-be-oneself). Second, I identify a more originary force of legitimation, which remains foreign to the order of perfo…
We Have Tasted the Powers of the Age to Come
Responding to the provocative phrase ‘The Age of Grammatology’, I propose to question the notion of ‘age’, and to interrogate the powers or forces, the dynameis or dynasties attached to the interpretative model of historical periodisation. How may we think the undeniable actuality of the event beyond the sempiternal history of ages, and beyond the traditional, onto-teleological chain of power, possibility, force or dynamis that undergirds such hi…
The Truth That Hurts, or the Corps à Corps of Tongues
Evelyne Grossman: This issue of Europe dedicated to your work brings together [rassemble], as you know, contributors from various countries (Italy, Spain, Belgium, the United States, England, Egypt
À Corps
Corps À
Resisting the Present
In its hegemonic definition, biopolitical governmentality is characterised by a seemingly infinite capacity of expansion, susceptible to colonise the landscape and timescape of the living present in the name of capitalistic productivity. The main trait of biopower is its normative, legal and political plasticity, allowing it to reappropriate critiques and resistances by appealing to bioethical efficacy and biological accuracy. Under these circums…
Texts on Violence
Este artículo interroga cierta escena filosófica –una que se constituye a través de la posición de lo que Jacques Derrida llama “la instancia ética de la violencia”. En el curso del ensayo, analizo esta escena cuasi-jurídica a través de las lecturas de Aristóteles, Walter Benjamin y Giorgio Agamben, entre otros. La escena, construida sobre textos sobre textos sobre violencia, exige una lógica de la pureza; es recelosa de conta-minaciones y equívo…
Tele-Mournings
This thought piece dealing with the Covid-19 'crisis' was written -in the form of a diary that runs from February to July 2020 -for a special issue of Derrida Today entitled 'Fire, Flood, Pestilence and Protest', edited by Nicole Anderson, and published in November 2020.The piece deals with matters of biopolitics, telecommunication, death and mourning through Derrida and Agamben, and interrogates the eventness of what is called an 'event'
Ambivalent Promises-Reproductions of the Subject
Jacques Derrida delivered the basis of The Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning, & the New International as a plenary address at the conference 'Whither Marxism?' hosted by the University of California, Riverside, in 1993. The longer book version was published in French the same year and appeared in English and Portuguese the following year. In the decade after the publication of Specters, Derrida's analyses provoked a la…
Immaterial Matters, or the Unconscious of Materialism
In this conversation, which took place across several months in the year 2021, Elizabeth Grosz describes her position with respect to “new materialism” and “the material turn”: while she emphasizes the necessity of materialist thought in the current situation marked by a global pandemic, she also stresses the equal importance of what she calls “the incorporeal”: an excess in and of matter, materiality’s heterogeneous virtuality, differentiality a…
Inmaterial Matters, or the Unconscious of Materialism
In this conversation, which took place across several months in the year 2021, Elizabeth Grosz describes her position with respect to “new materialism” and “the material turn”: while she emphasizes the necessity of materialist thought in the current situation marked by a global pandemic, she also stresses the equal importance of what she calls “the incorporeal”: an excess in and of matter, materiality’s heterogeneous virtuality, differentiality a…
Old and new matters
This article constitutes a substantial introduction to the thematic issue “Matters.” After introducing briefly the scattered constellation described by some as “new materialism” or “the material turn,” as well as its main concepts and methods, I offer a deconstructive reflection on “the turn” by challenging a series of theoretical gestures meant to coalesce the turn to materiality in contemporary continental philosophy—starting with the exclusion…
Re/pro/ductions
This article examines Jacques Derrida's work of self-reflection on his own teaching practice by using as a guiding thread the problematics of reproduction in the seminars of the 1970s. The first part of the article examines the sequence of seminars taught by Derrida at École normale supérieure from 1971 to 1977 to show how the concept of reproduction is deconstructed by Derrida across several seminars. Derrida systematically demonstrates, across …
"The Force of the Event"
Much has been written on Derrida’s and Butler's discussions of Austin’s speech act theory, but one thing at least remains unclear: why does performativity hinge on the notion of “force,” and what “force” are we here talking about? For Austin, the force of the performative signals a performative enforcement, a validating repetition of prior conditions of legitimation: it testifies to the “felicity” or “success” of the performative event.According …
‘Rideaux rouges’
As they make their way through Louis Althusser’s and Jacques Derrida’s texts, readers will cross innumerable curtains – ‘the words and things’, as Derrida says, as many fabrics of traces. These curtains open onto a multiplicity of scenes and mises en scène, performances, roles, rituals, actors, plays – thus unfolding the space of a certain theatricality. This essay traces Althusser’s and Derrida’s respective deployments of the theatrical motif. I…
Glas Struggles
This essay stages an encounter between several texts by Jacques Derrida (notably Memoires – for Paul de Man, Life Death, and Glas) which delineate the contours of what could be called a ‘memorial agonistics’. Through readings of Marx, Nietzsche and Freud, Derrida shows that memory and commemorations always involve struggles in nomination and classification, jealous movements of appropriation and expropriation of the departed, wars in and for the …
Altérités
What's in a word?Cet article est écrit sur un mot, un bon mot de Donna Haraway.Il s'agit du mot worlding -un mot d'apparence simple, mais qui couvre un champ virtuellement infini : celui du monde ou des mondes, de leur formation ou de leur production comme mondes.Ce mot anglais, « difficile à traduire » comme l'écrit Bruno Latour, a récemment essaimé dans tout un pan de la littérature anglophone contemporaine, dans les domaines de l'anthropologie…
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