The Impossible, Patience: Critical Essays 2007-2013

Contents
Introduction: Proximity
	The book’s form
	The title’s punctuation
	Proximity’s distance
	Notes
I Have Even Met Happy Nihilists
	1 The other kind of nihilist
	2 Ethics as micro-politics
	3 Hangovers of the Left
	Endnotes
	Appendix: I Have Even Met Happy Nihilists. Tractatus Version [Excerpts]
Its Core is the Negation
	1
	2
	3
	4
	Endnotes
Fénéon’s Novels
	1 Tiny Novels
	2 A Way of Life
	3 Brevity and Relation
	4 In the Air
	5 Emergency Novels
	6 Ataraxia
	7 Daydream of Life
	8 Antislogans
	9 Two Short-Prose Challenges
	Endnotes
How Slogans End
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	2
	3
	4
To Acid-Words
	Part 1: Moral
		How Activists Talk
		Our Operation Margarine
	Part 2: Amoral
		Mutant Speech
		Jabberwocky, the language
		Spectacle/Language
	Endnotes
History as Decomposition
	§ 1
	§ 2
	§ 3
	§ 4
	§ 5
	§ 6
	§ 7
	§ 8
	§ 9
	§ 10
	§ 11
	§ 12
	§ 13
	§ 14
	Endnotes
Green Nihilism or Cosmic Pessimism
Conclusion: Silence
	Away, a way
	The Impossible
	The Beautiful Idea
Selected References