Contents -- Acknowledgements ix -- List of Illustrations xi -- Lorna Collins Introduction 1 -- Part 1 Theoretical Approaches to Making Sense 7 -- Florian Forestier - Sens et composition: quelques remarques sur la pensée du sens et de l'art chez Jean-Luc Nancy 9 -- Ian James - Af fection and Infinity 23 -- Ryosuke Kakinami - Making Sense of the Fragment: A Reading of The Literary Absolute 33 -- Part 2 Manifestos 49 -- Christopher Watkin - Making Ethical Sense 51 -- Patricia Ribault - Making Makes Sense: Craft as an Exploratory Mode of Thinking 55 -- Hugues Azérad - Making Sense of Epiphanic Images 63 -- Faith Lawrence - The Art of Listening 77 -- Part 3 Poetry 87 -- Carol Mavor - 'Phantoms of the Past, Dear Companions of Childhood, Vanished Friends': Making Sense of Sally Mann's Trees 89 -- Benjamin Morris - On Bilingualism in English 113 -- Part 4 Performance Art 131 -- Susan Sellers and Elizabeth Wright - Painting in Prose: Performing the Artist in Susan Sellers's Vanessa and Virginia 133 -- Jennifer Milligan, Jean-Luc Moriceau and Victor Bellaich - I Could Only Tell, by the Skin of my Body 141 -- Alice Shyy - Making 'Me' Things Makes 'You' 149 -- Part 5 Making Sense as 'Event' 155 -- Caroline Rannersberger - The Sensation of Painting Country in Remote Northern Australia 157 -- Lorna Collins - Making Sense of Territory: The Painting Event 185 -- Laura McMahon - Passage of Sense: Anish Kapoor's Memory (2008) with Jean-Luc Nancy 199 -- Part 6 Conclusion 207 -- Jean-Luc Nancy - Making Sense 209 -- Jean-Luc Nancy, translated by Emma Wilson - Making Sense (Translation) 215 -- Notes on Contributors 221 -- Index 227.