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Science fiction films interrogating the alien nature of the human being after Heidegger and actors, painters, artists’ models that model humanness in Rivette, Allen, Cassavetes. “Being” as the alien language in which we speak of ourselves as being human. Beckett’s “Lucky” and Dickens’s “Scrooge” perform opposite sides of the abra-qua-dabra of “real presence” in its hide-and-seek with mere representation. A magician in The Prestige pushes representation to extreme, literal replication for the sake of appearing to be impossibly real twice-over onstage. A man gives birth to herself in Predestination, and a pair of fictional characters in Assayas films perform versions of themselves before the fact.
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- 1.
Ibid., §94, 131.
- 2.
Ibid., 123 n.23.
- 3.
Ibid., §133, 186.
- 4.
Ibid., §126, 176; Heidegger, Being and Time, §16:80, 78.
- 5.
Heidegger, Being and Time, §4:13,12, §4:14, 13, and §16:75, 75.
- 6.
Ibid., §4:13,12, §4:14, 13, §16:73, 73, and §16:75, 75.
- 7.
John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690), Chapt. III; Charles J. Rezepka, The Self As Mind: Vision and Identity in Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Keats (Lincoln: iUniverse, 1999), 14.
- 8.
Heidegger, What Is Called Thinking? 113–18.
- 9.
Heidegger, Nietzsche, vol. I: The Will to Power as Art, trans. D.F. Krell (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981), 100; Heidegger, Being and Time, §189:182–83.
- 10.
Thomas Nagel, The View from Nowhere (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989), 45, n.11; Derek Parfit, Reasons and Persons (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986), 290 and 291.
- 11.
Heidegger, Introduction to Metaphysics, §141:197.
- 12.
Ibid., §121:169 and §122:170.
- 13.
Ibid., 139–40.
- 14.
Ibid., 140–41, 148, and 161.
- 15.
“Private Language,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/private-language/.
- 16.
Heidegger, What Is Called Thinking? 173, 179, 232, 234, 235, 236, 237, 239, and 241.
- 17.
Daniel Tiffany, Toy Medium: Materialism and Modern Lyric (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2000), 5.
- 18.
Ibid., 68, 69, and 70.
- 19.
- 20.
Heidegger, Being and Time, §31:150, 145.
- 21.
Ibid., §31:151, 147.
- 22.
Ibid., §31:152, 147.
- 23.
Ibid., §31:153, 148.
- 24.
Ibid., §31:161, 156, §31:162, 156, §31:163, 157, and §31:168, 163.
- 25.
Ibid., §31:170, 164.
- 26.
Heidegger, What Is Called Thinking? 65.
- 27.
Ibid., 61, 62, 95, and 96.
- 28.
Heidegger, Poetry, Language, Thought, 189, 190, and 191.
- 29.
Heidegger, What Is Called Thinking? 50, 51, 65.
- 30.
Heidegger, Poetry, Language, Thought, 192 and 197.
- 31.
Ibid., 222.
- 32.
Ibid., 192, 193, 201, and 202.
- 33.
Emmanuel Levinas, On Escape, trans. Bettina Bergo (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003), 51 and 52.
- 34.
Jacques Rolland, “Getting Out of Being by a New Path,” introduction to On Escape, 26; Levinas, 57.
- 35.
Rolland, 26–27.
- 36.
Quoted in Rolland, 27.
- 37.
Emmanuel Levinas, Of God Who Comes to Mind, trans. Bettina Bergo (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996), 195 n.1.
- 38.
Emmanuel Levinas, Otherwise than Being or Beyond Essence, trans. Alphonso Lingis (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1998), 207–8/163, “translation corrected” by Rolland, “Getting Out of Being by a New Path,” 28; Rolland, 29.
- 39.
G.W. Leibniz, “The Principles of Nature and Grace Based on Reason” (1714).
- 40.
Rolland, 28.
- 41.
Levinas, On Escape, 54, 55, and 56.
- 42.
Levinas, On Escape, 53–54, 56, 57, and 70.
- 43.
Heidegger, Being and Time, §44:220–21 and 212–13.
- 44.
David Edmonds and John Edinow, Wittgenstein’s Poker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers (New York: Ecco/HarperCollins, 2002), 14.
- 45.
Wittgenstein, Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics, §§3, 4, and 5.
- 46.
Ibid., §38, 42, 44, and 45.
- 47.
Ibid., §60 and 61.
- 48.
Ibid., 15.
- 49.
Heidegger, On the Way to Language, 73–74.
- 50.
Ibid., 73.
- 51.
Ibid., 77.
- 52.
“Its [Poetry’s] proper material is the credible impossibility. It is impossible that bodies should be minds, yet it was believed that the thundering sky was Jove.” Giambattista Vico, Nuova Scienza (1714), The New Science, trans. Thomas Goddard Bergin and Max Harold Frisch (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1970), 32 and 78, cited in Tiffany, Toy Medium, 5.
- 53.
Heidegger, Being and Time, 6.
- 54.
Ibid., 2 and 4; Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae II.1, qu. 94, a. 2.
- 55.
Heidegger, Being and Time, 5.
- 56.
Heidegger is responding to the question “…and what are poets for in a destitute time?” posed by Hölderlin’s poem “Bread and Wine” (1801). The poet speaks here of “the holy night.” Heidegger, Poetry, Language, Thought, 92.
- 57.
One begins to feel like there is a network of names floating around the virtual world of film that is intensified when film strives to represent some future virtual reality.
- 58.
Heidegger, Poetry, Language, Thought, 223.
- 59.
Anthony Lane, “Way Up High,” review of Clouds of Sils Maria in The New Yorker, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/04/20/way-up-high.
- 60.
Heidegger, Being and Time, §40:190, 183.
- 61.
Ibid., §29:139, 136, §40:188, 182, and §40:189, 183.
- 62.
Ibid., §41:194, 187.
- 63.
§41:191, 184–85.
- 64.
Ibid., §58:280, 269, §58:281, 270, §58:287, 275, and §62:306, 293; Braver, Heidegger, 85 (the parenthetical).
- 65.
Heidegger, Being and Time, §62:296, 310.
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Golub, S. (2019). Human (Being). In: Heidegger and Future Presencing (The Black Pages). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31889-5_5
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