• Incur

    She has a knack for inserting herself into his life. He does not like her, and yet she is already in view. To call her a storm on the horizon is to unnecessarily poetize the most unpoetic of all. He… more ›

  • Vox Animalis

    The animal voice comes from beyond the body, resonates throughout the body. Its significance resides in the echo of the call, in the trace of the animal voice inscribed within the body. This residual animalia worms its way through the… more ›

  • In Budapest

    He remembers: the last time he heard a live cover of Bob Dylan’s “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” was late February 1996 in a basement pizza parlor in Budapest before heading to the trendiest discotheque out in the warehouses by the… more ›

  • Magna pretium cognoscere.

    Pity the wood that finds itself a violin. Pity the thought that finds itself man.He thinks it must be due to faulty metaphysics from calculative reckoning gone awry that there is evil in the world. The thought that one knows… more ›

  • Koszmar

    He had stumbled upon a dark continent slowly sinking into his unconsciousness. That strange land he called Insomnia where no stranger had ever stepped. Each familiar face beckoned to his; those wandering eyes boring into his own vacuous slits squinted… more ›

  • To Term

    Words were released today, words one should avoid online unless one preferred unnecessary governmental intrusions into one’s personal life. One should always avoid the unnecessary. But some basic words should be employed regularly: basic words like response, smart, aid, ice.… more ›

  • The Rites of the Storm

    We woke up early today, earlier than usual. But no day’s sleep can really be called that: usual. Even after resorting to sleeping apart. Alone. Last night it was the storm that did its work to undo his dreams. The… more ›

  • Keywords (All Time)

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  • Different Air

    What Badiou Meant to Us (Larval Subjects)  I still distinctly remember discovering Badiou’s work during my fourth year of graduate school. He was unlike anything else I’d read. Not only was his style characterized by rigor and clarity, but there… more ›

  • Zounds: Calling to the Hounds

    In her recent introduction to the poetry of Dr. Kristina Zolatova, Per Caritatem blogger Cynthia R. Nielsen writes, Zolatova describes herself as an “impure” boundary-transgressing philosopher, who takes no offence whatsoever at being called a poet. In fact, she welcomes… more ›