Uncanny Rest

In <i>Uncanny Rest</i> Alberto Moreiras offers a meditation on intellectual life under the suspension of time and conditions of isolation. Focusing on his personal day-to-day experiences of the shelter-in-place period during the first months of the coronavirus pandemic Moreiras engages with the limits and possibilities of critical thought in the realm of the infrapolitical-the conditions of existence that exceed average understandings of politics and philosophy. In each dated entry he works through the process of formulating a life's worth of thought and writing while attempting to locate the nature of thought once the coordinates of everyday life have changed. Offering nothing less than a phenomenology of thinking Moreiras shows how thought happens in and out of a life at a certain crossroads where memories collide where conversations with interlocutors both living and dead evolve and thinking during a suspended state becomes provisional and uncertain.