With technical precision and with scrupulous detail for the protocols of bookmaking and publishing, yet taking nothing away from the imaginative adventure of the literary work itself, Genette ...describes the very literal apparatus of the book, like this introduction, our cover, our colophon, our table of contents, or this first paragraph, as a set of analytics that divide the inside of the book írom the outside and vice versa. If this is one of the ironies of speaking of any author's work, such metaleptic reversals also foreground the special power of Neyrat's thinking, which is uniquely adept at summoning voices, or a barely felt set of forces from beyond the grave. ...De Boever's "On Frédéric Neyrat's Critical Thought" introduces us to the key analytic tool of the thinker: the philosophical place, the variability, and the significance of "narratives of the outside" (2). Frédéric Neyrat is Associate Professor and Mellon-Morgridge Professor of Planetary Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his contributions to volume 54.3 certainly live up to this unique title and profile. In specific opposition to the extractivist hegemony of the present and working in the slipstream of Reza Negarestani as well as Benjamin's general developmental characterization of "modernity as the time of hell," Neyrat offers up the "solar pantheism" of Emperor Julian the Apostate and Tommaso Campanella's City of the Sun as life and relations imagined otherwise.1 Neyrat's second contribution centres on what he lovingly calls "a communism of the far away" (78).
