Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword: Writing Between -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The Livingthinglikeness of Language -- 2. Words and Things -- 3. Thirds and Wings -- 4. The Order of Things in a Nutshell -- 5. Artistic Interlude I: The Sick Mind Continues to Infinity -- 6. An Introductory Vignette -- 7. Sometimes a Cigar -- 8. On Meaning -- 9. Fact and Fiction -- 10. How Bad Facts Make Good Theories -- 11. Self-Reference I -- 12. Self-Reference II -- 13. Autopoiesis -- 14. Poetic Interlude: Defrosting -- 15. Performativity I: Power and Meaning -- 16. Performativity II: Metacleavage -- 17. Artistic Interlude II: The Abyss of Distinction -- 18. Performativity III: Retroactivism -- 19. The Return to Resemblance -- 20. Gravity Cannot Be Held Responsible? -- 21. Queer in a Queer World -- 22. An Alienist Histoyr -- Bibliography -- Index.