ABSTRACT
Belgian philosopher Marc Richir was undoubtedly one of the most relevant contemporary phenomenologists. Affections – pleasures, displeasures, sickness, pains – are normally attributed to our bodies, as if, through them, the body manifested itself openly as endogenous. This chapter not only reveals Richir’s distance from Husserl and Heidegger’s projects but also presents an architechtonic of affectivity much more accessible than the one he would extensively present in his monumental work Phantasia, Imagination, Affectivite. Being-towards-death is as intrinsically differentiated and as extremely complex as “living.” The “life” of thinking lies also entirely in this way of resuming itself in its own time, but in a time interpreted as finitude, a finitude not just limited by death, but finite precisely in virtue of the absence of a determinate boundary between the finite and the infinite. A culture can subsist even though it is already dead, carries on in a machinal way, and think of itself as blind “machination.”.
