Jernej Habjan is Research Fellow at the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU), Ljubljana, and Assistant Professor at the Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU, Slovenia. He is the co-editor of Globalizing Literary Genres (2016), Academic Labour, Unemployment and Global Higher Education (2016) and (Mis)readings of Marx in Continental Philosophy (2014).

Introduction: Literature and Speech Acts from Austin to Derrida to Butler

1. Literature as Parasite: Austin Excludes Poetry as a Parasite of Speech Acts

Ad 1: Austin's Poetry in Dead Poets Society

2. Parasite as Necessary Possibility: Derrida Elevates the Parasite as the Poetry of Speech Acts

Ad 2: Derrida's Parasite in Romeo and Juliet

3. Necessary Possibility as Necessary Actuality: Butler Finds Poetry in Every Parasite

Ad 3: Butler's Poetry of Parasites in We Are all Jews and Germans

Conclusion: Literature and Political Disagreement from Austin to Rancière to Ducrot