... or the exact locus of an explosion. The name “Ground Zero” stokes a fantasy of omnipotence that is inseparable from vulnerability and exposure. In addition, the term “Ground Zero” stems from and exemplifies a rhetoric and praxis of targeting that Samuel Weber, building on Heidegger's interpretation...

...Samuel Weber has proved to be so influential to so many for so long. He owes partly to the singular position he holds in relation to the domains of literary theory and continental philosophy. Jacques Derrida once confirmed that within such fields, Weber's “remarkable” and “inaugural” texts have...

..., which Kant carefully prepared and soon discarded in favor of a shorter introduction. He discarded his most complete exposition of the program as a whole to indicate that he was ambivalent about technik, which Samuel Weber suggests should be translated as “technics.” Kant begins the discarded...

...The moment Francis Bacon started his experimental wager, torture became linked to the test. Everything was put to the test, torturing the body, flaying the certitudes of knowledge. In Institution and Interpretation, Samuel Weber organizes an aspect of his reflections on psychoanalysis...

...The work of Samuel Weber has greatly influenced writers and thinkers across the arts and humanities: including literary, critical, and cultural theory; media, communication, theatre, and cultural studies; new media and technology; psychoanalysis; and philosophy. His remarkable and inaugural texts...

...It might be said that Samuel Weber made his name by writing on psychoanalysis rather than deconstruction. Texts published in MLN and Glyph devote various aspects to Freud's writing in particular. His two books on psychoanalysis brought Weber critical acclaim. And the relation...

...Samuel Weber's work has a remarkable range. He has written on Freud and Lacan, Nietzsche and Heidegger, Balzac and Hoffmann. His work addresses all the crucial issues of critical theory, from questions of hermeneutics and deconstruction to problems of professionalism and the structure...

...Samuel Weber's work is a sustained effort to disrupt such distinction between the practical, philosophical, political, and the ingrained figures that support them. One might say that the theoretical movement of Weber's work is unsettling because it neither relies on a fixed direction nor lacks...

...“IT, Again” is experimenting with points and issues, like the economy, ethics, and the institution of the university, in the sense Samuel Weber has given to the term “experimenting”, where the present participle involves movement and is never conclusive or contained. Experimenting...