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Dominik Finkelde: Logiken der Inexistenz: Figurationen des Realen im Zeitalter der Immanenz. Deutsche Erstausgabe. Wien: Passagen Verlag, 2019. 170 pp.

Dominik Finkelde: Logiken der Inexistenz: Figurationen des Realen im Zeitalter der Immanenz.... On the first page of Dominik Finkelde’s Logiken der Inexistenz, a photograph by Paul Nougé entitled Les buveurs depicts two men seated across from one another at a table. Each man extends a hand toward his counterpart in a gesture indicating they are about to clink glasses, but closer examination reveals their hands to be empty. There are no glasses – what is it, then, that they appear to be holding? Inscribed as an absence, the glasses, to borrow a phrase from Finkelde, “inexistieren” within the image (4). Despite being an absence – or rather, as an absence – the glasses nevertheless exercise certain effects. For one, their absence strikes the viewer as an uncanny remainder, an irritation that makes one second-guess one’s own eyes. Moreover, insofar as this absence replaces precisely the object that would confirm the status of the men as buveurs, the image suggests that every appearance of coherence or identity is haunted by an absence or lack as its uncanny double.The dynamics in the photograph illustrate the central premise of Finkelde’s book: our relation to reality is fundamentally structured by a “konstitutive Abwesenheit” (21), the effects of which have far-reaching implications for epistemology, subjectivity, and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png arcadia de Gruyter

Dominik Finkelde: Logiken der Inexistenz: Figurationen des Realen im Zeitalter der Immanenz. Deutsche Erstausgabe. Wien: Passagen Verlag, 2019. 170 pp.

arcadia , Volume 57 (2): 5 – Nov 1, 2022

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1613-0642
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10.1515/arcadia-2022-9039
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Abstract

On the first page of Dominik Finkelde’s Logiken der Inexistenz, a photograph by Paul Nougé entitled Les buveurs depicts two men seated across from one another at a table. Each man extends a hand toward his counterpart in a gesture indicating they are about to clink glasses, but closer examination reveals their hands to be empty. There are no glasses – what is it, then, that they appear to be holding? Inscribed as an absence, the glasses, to borrow a phrase from Finkelde, “inexistieren” within the image (4). Despite being an absence – or rather, as an absence – the glasses nevertheless exercise certain effects. For one, their absence strikes the viewer as an uncanny remainder, an irritation that makes one second-guess one’s own eyes. Moreover, insofar as this absence replaces precisely the object that would confirm the status of the men as buveurs, the image suggests that every appearance of coherence or identity is haunted by an absence or lack as its uncanny double.The dynamics in the photograph illustrate the central premise of Finkelde’s book: our relation to reality is fundamentally structured by a “konstitutive Abwesenheit” (21), the effects of which have far-reaching implications for epistemology, subjectivity, and

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arcadiade Gruyter

Published: Nov 1, 2022

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