The Shock of the Same: An Anti-Philosophy of Clichés (Futures of the Archive)

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Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgements
Prologue: Facing Clichés
	The Boy with the Cliché on His Face
	The Big Idea
	Mere Typologies
	Facing the Front
	Notes
Chapter 1: The Meaning of Clichés
	Sites of Displacement
	The Anti-Philosophy of the Cliché
	The Case of the Commonplace
	Into the Archive
	Undead Spaces
	Notes
Chapter 2: Dead Spaces: Arendt, Orwell and the Morbidity of Political Clichés
	Arendt: Banality, Evil and Aesthetics
	Orwell: Making Language Matter
	Eichmann’s Last Cliché
	‘The Process Is Reversible’
	The Undead Cliché
	Notes
Chapter 3: Cynical Modernity from Nietzsche to Sloterdijk
	A History of Forgetting
	The Egyptian Spectacle
	Nietzsche’s Clichés
	Repetition Reconsidered
	Cynical Reason
	Weaponizing Banality
	Notes
Chapter 4: Saying It with Flowers: Jean Paulhan’s Inappropriate Metaphors
	Saying It with Flowers
	Civic Duties
	Metaphor and Usury
	Radical Sacrifice
	Lest We Forget…
	Notes
Chapter 5: The Shock of the Same: Boris Groys and the Metanoia of the Cliché 
	On the New
	Archival Logic and the Hegemony of Critique
	Difference with a Difference
	‘The Most Profound Things Are Inexpressible’
	Afterthought: the Cliché as Anti-archive
	Notes
Chapter 6: On the Problem of Saying Something New: Kierkegaard’s Archetypes, McLuhan’s Clichés
	Difference and the New
	Archival Impulses and Concerns for Propriety
	The Banal Art of Retrieval
	Quidam’s Guilt/Non-guilt
	Cliché on the Threshold
	Notes
Chapter 7: Stock Images of Madness: Rhetoric and Cliché in Video Games
	The Limits of Insanity
	Rhetorics of Suffering and Darkness: monstrous doubles and reaching tentacles
	Immersion, Representation and Commonplace Procedures
	Heroism Re-objectified
	Notes
Chapter 8: ‘This Will All Make Sense When I Am Older’: Rebooting Clichés
	A Crisis of Infinite Reboots
	Bringing the Past into the Problematic Present
	The Dark Knight Returns, Again
	Disavowal, Forgetting and Remembering Again
	A Return to Narrative
	Notes
Chapter 9: Gatekeeping the ‘Noise’: Expertise, Open-Mindedness and Public Debate
	We Have Had Enough of Having Enough of Experts
	Conflict and Resonance
	Kant’s Archaic Idyll
	The Procedures of Expertise
	Noisy Clichés
	Notes
Bibliography
Index