Edward Backman’s Reviews > Ontology of the Accident: An Essay on Destructive Plasticity > Status Update

“We must all of us recognize that we might, one day, become someone else, an absolute other, someone who will never be reconciled with themselves again ... without redemption or atonement … These modes of being without genealogy have nothing to do with the wholly other found in the mystical ethics of the twentieth century. The Wholly Other I’m talking about remains always and forever a stranger to the Other.”