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• *Corpus corporum* (Nancy)

  Latin: "corpus of corpora"; literally "body of bodies" but operatively "a collection of collections." Nancy's name (Corpus 155) for the body without organic-functional unity — zoned, acephalic and aphallic, "discontinuous, fragmentary, par…

• Creation *ex nihilo* (Materialist, Nancy)

  Nancy's redeployment of the Christian doctrine of creation ex nihilo as a materialist doctrine. It does not mean that the world is produced out of some pre-existing nothing by a powerful artisan-God; rather, it means the world has no presu…

• Freedom of the Stone (Nancy)

  Nancy's claim — anchored at the end-fragment of The Experience of Freedom (EF 158–60) — that freedom extends not only to all living beings but also to the stone. The claim is intelligible only after a radical de-subjectivisation of freedom…

• Inorganic Body of Sense (Nancy)

  Nancy's name (Sense of the World 61–2) for the totality of material bodies articulated through their spacings, mutual exposures, and weighings — without organic unity or functional whole. "There are only material bodies, then, and they mak…

• Jean-Luc Nancy

  French philosopher (1940-2021), major figure in contemporary continental philosophy. Author of works on community (The Inoperative Community), the body (Corpus, Corpus II, Sexistence, Marquage manquant), art (The Muses, Noli me tangere, Ad…

• Quentin Meillassoux

  French philosopher (b. 1967), central figure in the speculative realist movement that emerged from the April 2007 Goldsmiths College workshop. Author of Après la finitude (2006; After Finitude, trans. Brassier 2008) — the foundational SR t…

• The Human Object

  Merleau-Ponty's term, attributed to Marx, for the cultural object as carrier of social meaning at the level of perception. The notion is given its concentrated statement in "Marxism and Philosophy" (Chapter 9 of Sense and Non-Sense, Revue…

• Weight of Thought (Nancy)

  Nancy's name (in The Gravity of Thought and "The Heart of Things") for the structural fact that thought is itself a material event: thought weighs (active sense — ascertains weight, ponders) because it has weight (passive sense — exerts pr…

• Whateverness / *quelconque* (Nancy)

  Nancy's name for the thing as some thing — quelque chose, n'importe quoi, une chose quelconque: a "certain something" that is both conceptually indeterminate (lacks essential determinations) and materially concrete (this tree, this stone).…