Bergen and McCarthy: the logic of an act -- Nietzsche and ventriloquism -- Self-spacing: Foucault's ventriloqual tendencies -- Socratic ventriloquism: theatricality and the voice of logos -- The dislocation of the architectural self -- Self-plagiarism: the ecstatic recycling of the artist's voice -- Cavellian conversation and the life of art -- Epilogue: two ventriloqual paintings