0. Stance, Constituency, Epistemology; 1. Subject as Social Allegory vs. Self as Interiority and the Pivot Formulation of Descartes; 2. Deconstruction: Hello and Goodbye; 3. To Position a Survivable Polity, Non-Interiority, Valencies for Subjectivity; 4. Briefly, On  Body Politics; 5. On Japan and the Subject: Mirage and Historical Estrangement; 6. An End (finis, not telos)