The Torqued Horizon: Preliminary Notes on the Hypersurface of the Real

This paper uses Quentin Meillassoux's After Finitude to re-read Martin Heidegger's Being and Time, Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness, and Jacques Derrida's Voice and Phenomenon, with an eye toward releasing the subject from its correlationist, anthropocentric basis in traditional readings of Heidegger's dasein. By beginning with Meillassoux, and with the help of Gilbert Simondon, this study resituates the possibility of the subject in being, as one possible movement of being, rather than as a distinct power over and against being.