Introduction : the logic of afterness -- Afterness and modernity : a genealogical note -- Afterness and critique : a paradigmatic case -- Afterness and aesthetics : end without end -- Afterness and rettung : can anything be rescued by defending it? -- Afterness and translation : the politics of carrying across -- Afterness and the image (I) : unsettling photography -- Afterness and the image (II) : image withdrawal -- Afterness and experience (I) : can hope be disappointed? -- Afterness and experience (II) : crude thinking rethought -- Afterness and experience (III) : mourning, memory, and the fictions of anteriority -- Afterness and empty space : no longer and not yet -- Afterwards : after-words