The Arachnean and Other Texts

Fernand Deligny, Drew S. Burk, Catherine Porter

• Publisher: Univocal Publishing
• Year: 2016
• eBook ISBN:
  9781937561314
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Philosophers

The network as a mode of being

In 1968, Fernand Deligny established a "network" for informally taking care of children with autism that was more than a mere site of living; it was a milieu created out of a reflection on the mode of being autistic. What is a space perceived outside of language? What is the form of a movement without perspective or goal? How do we engage with a world that is not our own, a world turned upside down yet truly common, where acting cohabitates with our actions and the unknown with our forms of knowledge? Such is the mythical web of the "Arachnean," made of lines, holes, traces, enigmas, and questions without answers that demand to see that which cannot be seen. The Arachnean and Other Texts is a collection of Deligny's writings from the second half of the 1970s. Long before the digital age of social networks, meshworks, and digital webs, Deligny speaks to us in his own autobiographical and aphoristic manner. For him, life was always experienced in the form of "the network as a mode of being."g."

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Living between the Lines
• The Arachnean Title Page
• The Arachnean
• The Island Below Title Page
• The Island Below Images
• When the-Human-that-We-Are Is Not There Title Page
• That Seeing and Looking at Oneself
• Acting and the Acted
• Art, Borders ... and the Outside
• Card Taken and Map Traced
• The Fulfilled Child
• Those Excessives
• The Human and the Supernatural
• The Charade
• Freedom without a Name
• Pretend Not to Notice
• The Obligatory and the Fortuitous
• Connivance
• The Missing Voice
• When the-Human-that-We-Are Is Not There
• Maps and Legends
• Le Serret
• Monoblet, November 1976
• Monoblet, August-September 1977
• Monoblet, September 17, 1977
• Monoblet, September 17, 1977-2
• Original Publication Data