namelessly appropriating. the signatory must be forgotten. in effect the annihilation of the signatory's presence from the document is required. for a signature is indeed the stereotyped gesture of a living body sets upon a document. mummified by a singular twitching of the hand that makes it recognizable, the gesture of signing anticipates the disappearance of that hand and its body and replaces its presence by the name. the name escapes the vicissitudes of presence.