prescribe, xv, 30–31, 52, 79n32, 123, 144–145

prescriptive, 8, 25, 39, 41–42, 123–124

prescription, 41, 43, 62, 70, 85, 144

proscribe, 62, 79n32, 144

proscription, 62, 144

Quek Sue-Shan (aka Lady Lue), 148n5

question, xii–xiii, 1–2, 6–10, 12n2, 13n15, 14n16, 22, 39, 52–56, 62, 72, 79n34, 80n39, 91, 96, 102, 104–105, 109, 112, 122, 126, 134, 140, 143, 145, 150–151

Ra, 141

Isis, 141

Ramachandran V. S., 21, 45nn2–3, 46n5

“mirror box”, 21–22

referentiality, 4, 73, 149n21, 152

relationality, 4, 65, 150–153

prerelational relationality, 4, 64, 151–153

respond, xiv, 2–3, 25, 51, 72, 75, 88, 147n2

nonresponsibility, 37

responding, 58–59, 78n14, 86, 95, 114, 151

responsibility, 30–40, 86, 96–97, 104, 110, 113

resurrect, xiv, 42

resurrection, xviiin3

right(s), 69–70, 73, 110

Ronell, Avital, xv, 147n2

The Telephone Book, 154

The Test Drive, xv, xviiin9, 46n18, 79n34, 81n41, 100n34

rule(s), 2–4, 9, 30, 40–41, 51–52, 65–69, 71, 80, 89–90, 93–94, 136–137, 139, 148n5

Rushdie, Salman, 16

Sacks, Oliver, 46n8

Saul. See Paul St.

secret, xiii, 4, 8, 37–39, 94, 109, 112, 118n46, 137, 141, 143, 146, 148n7

self-referential, 73

sentence, 14n18, 35, 56–57, 72, 102, 104, 106, 110, 112, 124, 134

death sentence, 43, 98n14

simulate, 22, 30, 32–33, 36, 41, 46n19, 48n32, 57–58, 67, 87–88, 90, 95, 98n3, 107, 137

double simulation, 89

simulation, 33, 55–56, 58, 98n14, 105, 119n53, 137

simulacra, 32, 36, 94

single, 3, 26–27, 64, 71, 113, 144

singular, xii, xviiin3, xviiin7, 2, 8–9, 25, 35, 42, 55, 68, 72, 149n15

singularities, 38

singularity, 1, 6, 31, 39, 53, 70–71, 75, 99n26, 124, 143–144