ABSTRACT
The space of postmodernism is "the becoming-time of space and the becoming-space of time". As Thomas the Obscure suggests, to approach this uncanny non-place, one must err back to the future. If modern philosophy "ends" with the arrival of Hegel, postmodern non-philosophy "begins" with the return of Nietzsche. Nietzsche's return is, impossibly, always already before Hegel's arrival. Death is the absolute future in which the absolute past approaches, but only approaches, for death is never present. By interpreting the absolute future, which approaches without arriving, in terms of "death and dying", Blanchot is led to an unexpected conclusion. The Death of Mimas is formed by an enormous bronze eye with water constantly trickling out of it and a large arrow on either side of it. Between the Death of Enceladus and the Death of Mimas lies the scorched earth of Thunderstruck Landscape.
