From: L.Iyer-AT-mmu.ac.uk
Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 10:42:23 +0100
Subject: Re: References


All: 
the article "La Phrase Affect" is translated into English. It is 
available in the Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, 
October 2001 along with articles by Jean-Luc Nancy, and Geoffrey 
Bennington on Lyotard. 

On 5 May 2002, at 20:35, Thomas Taylor wrote:

Eric/all:

"Ubeknowst" is also collected  in Postmodern Fable. The other piece I referred to ("La Phrase-Affect" or "The Affect-phrase") is as yet untranslated. It is collected in a book entitled "Misere de la Philosophie".  That probably will not help you so much since its French (sorry).

It is his most direct response to what he found missing in The Differend (its original title was: "The Differend Itself"). After Wednesday (when finals are done) I will be able to 
translate a few key quotations for all. Sorry to leave you hanging on that one. I think its super important because it gives a framework for approaching his later work. 

As for Spinoza, I'm not so sure. And the Negri book, I can do a little with but my main points of contact with him are through Empire. Right now I'm working on adequate and inadequated ideas. Sorry this one's so choppy. I promise to follow up on this after Wed. when I have some time to 
breathe. If it makes any sense to you (pardon my shorthand) I read Lyotard's later works through a kind of psychoanalytic lens, the Freud of the death drive, and the temporality of traumatic events. The latter is what cognitive phrasing will try to erase or refute (the four silences of Gorgias in 
the Plato Notice, The Differend). But it is also the moment of the "is it happening?" which haunts his texts frequently, and which he will latter call a number of things, affect being one of them. 

Once again, pardon the shorthand, I will be able to address the discussion with less haste in a few days. 

Rod T.