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(Giving) Savings Accounts? 77The life glimpsed and gestured in Housekeeping is not unhappy,not unjust, not unloving, not empty of beauty, not senseless, nordoes it lack logic. It lacks a particular kind of logic. What’s more:that we can be moved by it; that we can imagine it, that we canborrow that thought without debt – suggests that the so-calledunthinkable alternative to what is, is not so much a lesson aswhat we should try to not lose sight of. Without counting on it.Notes1Oxford English Dictionary.2Rawls imagines a ‘last stage of society in which justice is achieved andindefinitely maintained, the goal for the sake of which saving wasrequired’ (Paden, 1997, p. 4).3Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims, Christians too, hold a closely related setof ‘truths’, though not expressed in secular terms: debt to a creator,saving oneself, salvation in an afterlife, bad karma, heaven, filialpiety, acquiring sin and discharging it in confessional modes, reapingwhat one sows. Just like the set of premises found in the ‘secularpolitical’ these rely on a cluster of concepts based in the ‘closed economic’:measure, distribution, exchange, commerce, trafficking.4Nausea-traps such as one discovers, crawling on all fours, in GregorSchneider’s 2001 Venice Biennale Ur-house installation (http://www.designboom.com/snapshots/venezia/germany.html).Works CitedBaugh, B. French Hegel: From Surrealism to Postmodernism (New York:Routledge, 2003).—‘Let’s Get Lost: From the Death of the Author to the Disappearanceof the Reader’, Symposium, 10, 1 (2006), pp. 223–32.Bogue, R. Deleuze’s Wake: Tributes and Tributaries (Albany, NY: SUNYPress, 2004).Butler, J. ‘On Never Having Learned How to Live’. Differences, 16, 3(2005), pp. 27–34.Deleuze, G. and F. Guattari. A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism andSchizophrenia, trans. B. Massumi (Minneapolis: University ofMinnesota Press, 1987).Foucault, M. History of Sexuality: Volume One, trans. R. Hurley (NewYork: Vintage Books, 1978).WHolland_Ch04_FPP.indd 772/5/2009 5:53:57 PM