flētum: a prayer for X

摘要: Somewhat hesitantly, this paper asks ‘what place for you and me in assemblage?’ What, if anything, remains of the ‘you’ ‘me’ after ‘assemblage theory’? As, with new material imaginary, subjects are once again subject to dispersal decentring, fading into flickering networks multiplied across orders orderings, seeks recall singularity other. To do so reflects on all too fragile difference between ‘him’ ‘it’, how why we should try remember (a recalling that may well constitute ‘we’ first place). At same time, cite perform specific ‘relations address’– belief, doubt, vow, dis-agreement, hesitation, promise, weeping, mourning, prayer – relations are, arguably, I Thou, demand a form grammar, exposure existential commitment. Finally, suggests, albeit implicitly, forms speech rationalisation involved here, papers journals such as this, only take sense when they addressed or owed an other corporeal, ethical fact underwrites claims.