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TY - JOUR
T1 - 'Disastrologies'
AU - Schad, Stephen John
N1 - This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Edinburgh University Press in Derrida Today. The Version of Record is available online at: http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/drt.2017.0155
PY - 2017/11/1
Y1 - 2017/11/1
N2 - ‘Disastrologies’ explores Derrida’s fascination with dates and how that fascination reveals a secret correspondence, in every sense of the word, with Walter Benjamin – a man who has the same birth-date as Derrida. It is, though, the date of Benjamin’s death and indeed its infamous mise-en-scene, the cheap hotel on the Franco-Spanish border, that dominates this text which takes the form of a dramatic monologue delivered by the hotel manager, Juan Suner, a man known to be both a manipulator of dates and, indeed, close to the Gestapo. As the monologue unfolds, Suner advances an elaborate calendrical re-reading of a host of Derrida texts which probes at the mystery not only of Benjamin’s last night but also of living with both Jewish and Christian calendars. Finally, we see how this last of nights puts under unbearable pressure the infinite promise of both the Jewish Sabbath and the Christian Sunday.
AB - ‘Disastrologies’ explores Derrida’s fascination with dates and how that fascination reveals a secret correspondence, in every sense of the word, with Walter Benjamin – a man who has the same birth-date as Derrida. It is, though, the date of Benjamin’s death and indeed its infamous mise-en-scene, the cheap hotel on the Franco-Spanish border, that dominates this text which takes the form of a dramatic monologue delivered by the hotel manager, Juan Suner, a man known to be both a manipulator of dates and, indeed, close to the Gestapo. As the monologue unfolds, Suner advances an elaborate calendrical re-reading of a host of Derrida texts which probes at the mystery not only of Benjamin’s last night but also of living with both Jewish and Christian calendars. Finally, we see how this last of nights puts under unbearable pressure the infinite promise of both the Jewish Sabbath and the Christian Sunday.
KW - Walter Benjamin
KW - Dates
KW - October
KW - November
KW - Hotel
KW - Sabbath
KW - Friday
KW - Sunday
U2 - 10.3366/drt.2017.0155
DO - 10.3366/drt.2017.0155
M3 - Journal article
VL - 10
SP - 180
EP - 196
JO - Derrida Today
JF - Derrida Today
SN - 1754-8500
IS - 2
ER -