Richard Klein

Climate Change through the Lens of Nuclear Criticism

The language with which one evokes climate apocalypse implicates a pragmatic paradox of enunciation analogous to one analyzed by Nuclear Criticism. It entails the necessity of speaking about the end of organized society from a perspective, a standpoint beyond the end, posthumously, as it were. It gives rise to the dubious pleasure, in another form, of what has been called the nuclear sublime.

Knowledge of the Future: Future Fables

Derridas lecture “No Apocalypse, Not Now (Full Speed Ahead, Seven Missiles, Seven Missives)” is linked here to his discussions of 9/11, which share a concern with fables of the future, fictions or fables that condition the political and economic life of the present. This article is a reflection on futurity and the event, including the possibility of the destruction of the archive, in which, as Derrida put it, what is at stake “is nothing less than the existence of the world, of the worldwide itself.” The power of the worst to haunt our unconscious requires the greatest vigilance.