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Speculations III, published in September 2012, ISBN: 978-0988234017

Into what, precisely, do we plummet when we fall into love? What, exactly, is produced when we make it? When we are hungry for love, what stomach is nourished by that strange food? Colloquialisms are littered with a language that objectifies love, that turns it into a thing—not just something we can feel, but something we can touch, something that hits us, changes us, throws us, consumes us, drives us. Popular parlance makes the love relation into something almost tangible, concrete, autonomous: love is some thing we fall into, love is a master key, love is a war, love is a bite of heaven, love is a virus. Such language begins to suggest that the “love object” is not, exactly, the person for whom you pine. Instead, it begins to look as though the “love object” is the relation, itself. Love takes on thing-like contours, becomes its own sort of creature. It does its own little cosmic dance.

--Beatrice Marovich, "Thing Called Love: That Old Substantive Relation"

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--TABLE OF CONTENTS--

Editorial Introduction

ARTICLES

Re-asking the Question of the Gendered Subject after Non-Philosophy
Benjamin Norris

Thing Called Love: That Old Substantive Relation
Beatrice Marovich

The Other Face of God: Lacan, Theological Structure, and the Accursed Remainder
Levi R. Bryant

Improper Names for God: Religious Language and the “Spinoza-Effect”
Daniel Whistler

Namelessness and the Speculative Turn: A Response to Whistler
Daniel Colucciello Barber

Diagonals: Truth-Procedures in Derrida and Badiou
Christopher Norris