Maurice Blanchot and the question of being

For Maurice Blanchot, indifference to the opacity of the world feeds on the informed conscience of humans. This exposes us to the uselessness of conceiving the human being as a deeply active instance in the world. What concerns Maurice Blanchot is not reason itself, but "[...] the accelerated accumulation of rational devices, a logical vertigo of rationalizations [...]" (Blanchot, Le Livre a venir, 1986: 32). In order to verify this hypothesis, it is necessary to examine the relationship which links distancing and neutrality to some of Blanchot's notions, amongst others, reiteration as will and as representation.