Matter(’)s (of) unconscious(ing): Re-membering/reconfiguring(,) the logics/structure of supplementarity

Abstract

Engaging Derrida's logics of supplementarity, I bring forward the fact that spacetimemattering always already engages in all matter of re-memberings, and is always already inhabited by unconscious(ing), both of which are processes constitutive of spacetimemattering.

Keywords

Materiality Remembering Spacetimemattering Supplementarity Trans*/Formations Unconscious(Ing)Virtuality

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