The Actuality of a World: What Ceases Not to Be Written

“There is no longer any world,” wrote the late philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy in 1993, and this paper, sense of loss world analysed terms modal notions necessity, impossibility, possibility. Modal differentiation can illuminate what constitutes actuality a world, hence, it that has been lost regarding being world. thinking does not rely on knowledge true state affairs, nor having constant grasp necessity: enables us to discern actual by way relations between possibility, impossibility. It basis these mode rethinking suggested. In order pursue line thought, I Jacques Lacan’s understanding modalities as writing operations, concentrating mostly certain sections from his Seminar XXI (1973–1974), wherein he refers Aristotelian logic mentions analytic Jaakko Hintikka (as one Aristotle’s commentators). This ternary relation Aristotle, Hintikka, Lacan suggests different outlook being-such The its actuality, understood contingency (what ceases be written), possibility emerging declared necessary impossible. paper shows implications such demonstrated view human sexuality sexual difference.