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HTA 17.5; Nancy; "Of Divine Places" [1986]

ABSTRACT This episode is part five of five of the lecture series [HTA 17] on Jean-Luc Nancy’s “Of Divine Places” [1986], in The Inoperative Community [1991]. PRIMARY SOURCE Nancy, Jean-Luc. “Of Divine Places.” In The Inoperative Community, translated by Michael Holland, [2026] Second V., 110–50. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1991 [1986]. * HillJ_ Teacher Exemplar Annotations [https://HillJ.net/assets/pdfs/annotations/nancy-of-divine-places-hillj-annotations-v2-2026.pdf]. GUIDING QUESTIONS * What is the significance of the wink? * How does the wink replace the instant surface of art with the face of the gods? * How does the smile of the gods occur? * Where are the gods? Where is God? * What does the death of God mean for Nancy? * How are coming and departing related for divine places and for the gods? * How does the god appear and disappear? Offer and withdraw? * What are bare places? * Why are the temples deserted? * Why is God’s nature essentially lacking as a no god rather than as a lack? * How have God, the gods, and my God all abandoned us? * What are the importances of exposure and destitution in Nancy’s argument? * How does no presence — of nothing as void — allow for a god’s return? * Who is my God? [A singular address from a singular subject.] * How does our shared destitution, exposure, and abandonment before the face of our wandering god — gods who have long abandoned us or will nevertheless soon leave anyway — connect us? How does this mirror our connection through being’s originary co-spacing and co-origination via mitsein in other Nancy texts? * How does the God differ from a god?

HTA 17.4; Nancy; "Of Divine Places" [1986]

ABSTRACT This episode is part four of five of the lecture series [HTA 17] on Jean-Luc Nancy’s “Of Divine Places” [1986], in The Inoperative Community [1991]. PRIMARY SOURCE Nancy, Jean-Luc. “Of Divine Places.” In The Inoperative Community, translated by Michael Holland, [2026] Second V., 110–50. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1991 [1986]. * HillJ_ Teacher Exemplar Annotations [https://HillJ.net/assets/pdfs/annotations/nancy-of-divine-places-hillj-annotations-v2-2026.pdf]. GUIDING QUESTIONS * What is the significance of the wink? * How does the wink replace the instant surface of art with the face of the gods? * How does the smile of the gods occur? * Where are the gods? Where is God? * What does the death of God mean for Nancy? * How are coming and departing related for divine places and for the gods? * How does the god appear and disappear? Offer and withdraw? * What are bare places? * Why are the temples deserted? * Why is God’s nature essentially lacking as a no god rather than as a lack? * How have God, the gods, and my God all abandoned us? * What are the importances of exposure and destitution in Nancy’s argument? * How does no presence — of nothing as void — allow for a god’s return? * Who is my God? [A singular address from a singular subject.] * How does our shared destitution, exposure, and abandonment before the face of our wandering god — gods who have long abandoned us or will nevertheless soon leave anyway — connect us? How does this mirror our connection through being’s originary co-spacing and co-origination via mitsein in other Nancy texts? * How does the God differ from a god?

HTA 17.3; Nancy; "Of Divine Places" [1986]

ABSTRACT This episode is part three of five of the lecture series [HTA 17] on Jean-Luc Nancy’s “Of Divine Places” [1986], in The Inoperative Community [1991]. PRIMARY SOURCE Nancy, Jean-Luc. “Of Divine Places.” In The Inoperative Community, translated by Michael Holland, [2026] Second V., 110–50. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1991 [1986]. * HillJ_ Teacher Exemplar Annotations [https://HillJ.net/assets/pdfs/annotations/nancy-of-divine-places-hillj-annotations-v2-2026.pdf]. GUIDING QUESTIONS * What is the significance of the wink? * How does the wink replace the instant surface of art with the face of the gods? * How does the smile of the gods occur? * Where are the gods? Where is God? * What does the death of God mean for Nancy? * How are coming and departing related for divine places and for the gods? * How does the god appear and disappear? Offer and withdraw? * What are bare places? * Why are the temples deserted? * Why is God’s nature essentially lacking as a no god rather than as a lack? * How have God, the gods, and my God all abandoned us? * What are the importances of exposure and destitution in Nancy’s argument? * How does no presence — of nothing as void — allow for a god’s return? * Who is my God? [A singular address from a singular subject.] * How does our shared destitution, exposure, and abandonment before the face of our wandering god — gods who have long abandoned us or will nevertheless soon leave anyway — connect us? How does this mirror our connection through being’s originary co-spacing and co-origination via mitsein in other Nancy texts? * How does the God differ from a god?

HTA 17.2; Nancy; "Of Divine Places" [1986]

ABSTRACT This episode is part two of five of the lecture series [HTA 17] on Jean-Luc Nancy’s “Of Divine Places” [1986], in The Inoperative Community [1991]. PRIMARY SOURCE Nancy, Jean-Luc. “Of Divine Places.” In The Inoperative Community, translated by Michael Holland, [2026] Second V., 110–50. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1991 [1986]. * HillJ_ Teacher Exemplar Annotations [https://HillJ.net/assets/pdfs/annotations/nancy-of-divine-places-hillj-annotations-v2-2026.pdf]. GUIDING QUESTIONS * What is the significance of the wink? * How does the wink replace the instant surface of art with the face of the gods? * How does the smile of the gods occur? * Where are the gods? Where is God? * What does the death of God mean for Nancy? * How are coming and departing related for divine places and for the gods? * How does the god appear and disappear? Offer and withdraw? * What are bare places? * Why are the temples deserted? * Why is God’s nature essentially lacking as a no god rather than as a lack? * How have God, the gods, and my God all abandoned us? * What are the importances of exposure and destitution in Nancy’s argument? * How does no presence — of nothing as void — allow for a god’s return? * Who is my God? [A singular address from a singular subject.] * How does our shared destitution, exposure, and abandonment before the face of our wandering god — gods who have long abandoned us or will nevertheless soon leave anyway — connect us? How does this mirror our connection through being’s originary co-spacing and co-origination via mitsein in other Nancy texts? * How does the God differ from a god?

HTA 17.1; Nancy; "Of Divine Places" [1986]

ABSTRACT This episode is part one of five of the lecture series [HTA 17] on Jean-Luc Nancy’s “Of Divine Places” [1986], in The Inoperative Community [1991]. PRIMARY SOURCE Nancy, Jean-Luc. “Of Divine Places.” In The Inoperative Community, translated by Michael Holland, [2026] Second V., 110–50. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1991 [1986]. * HillJ_ Teacher Exemplar Annotations [https://HillJ.net/assets/pdfs/annotations/nancy-of-divine-places-hillj-annotations-v2-2026.pdf]. GUIDING QUESTIONS * What is the significance of the wink? * How does the wink replace the instant surface of art with the face of the gods? * How does the smile of the gods occur? * Where are the gods? Where is God? * What does the death of God mean for Nancy? * How are coming and departing related for divine places and for the gods? * How does the god appear and disappear? Offer and withdraw? * What are bare places? * Why are the temples deserted? * Why is God’s nature essentially lacking as a no god rather than as a lack? * How have God, the gods, and my God all abandoned us? * What are the importances of exposure and destitution in Nancy’s argument? * How does no presence — of nothing as void — allow for a god’s return? * Who is my God? [A singular address from a singular subject.] * How does our shared destitution, exposure, and abandonment before the face of our wandering god — gods who have long abandoned us or will nevertheless soon leave anyway — connect us? How does this mirror our connection through being’s originary co-spacing and co-origination via mitsein in other Nancy texts? * How does the God differ from a god?