Sydney Levy

Marginal, Local and Time-Bound

SubStance # 100, Vol. 32, no. 1, 2003 notion of “world” in order for “globalization” to make sense? These are not two manners of asking the same question, but two entirely different questions. Whereas the first already endows the term “globalization” with a literal meaning, which then only has to be demonstrated, produced, or revealed in the realm of things and affairs. Nancy’s philosophical manner of asking first reduces the term to the production of its sense, thereby raising the possibility that the moment when the subject poses the question itself is already an expression of the event it designates. In fact, the question “What is globalization?” is already a bastard form of a question, since, just as in the game of Jeopardy, it is only an answer that is phrased in the form of a question, in accordance with the rules of the game. The Question of the Question: Thank you for the invitation. In response to your query, the question that interests me concerns the current limitation or contingency that determines the possibility of the question itself. As Deleuze might have phrased this, what is the concept of the question today? Syracuse University Notes 1. Franz Kafka, “Before the Law.” 2. Jean-Luc Nancy, La Creation du monde ou la mondialisation (Paris: Galilee, 2002).