Category: θεωρία

• Embrace/Suffering

  Jun 13

  “Talent deprived of the gift of sorrow produces only near-values.” In 1932, John Graham completed Embrace, a 30 x 36 in. oil painting on canvas. It is held by The… more ›

• On touching

  Jan 7

  In touching others, he touches himself. In touch, he becomes the object of his own touch insofar as the surface of others touches back, insofar as he receives in return… more ›

• Malevich and Suprematism, Part 3: A Desert of Pure Feeling

  Jun 7

  Since I have sworn that I would not pursue retranslating Malevich’s Suprematism manifesto until after completing the dissertation, I’ll use a deficient translation I found online several weeks ago. I… more ›

• Extreme Humanism and the Name(d): A Leap over the Threshold of Language (Part IV of IV)

  Jul 14

  Throughout his later work, Heidegger carefully divests us human beings from our subjectivism, our techno-productionist views of the world, as well as our various forms of humanisms; that is, he… more ›

• Extreme Humanism and the Name(d): A Leap over the Threshold of Language (Part III of IV)

  Jul 12

  At first glance, the abyss separating human beings from animals within Heidegger’s work seems to allow for the greater possibility that human beings can be seen as privileged subjects and… more ›

• Extreme Humanism and the Name(d): A Leap over the Threshold of Language (Part II of IV)

  Jul 10

  World comes to the fore within Heidegger’s exploration of the humanity of human beings. Significantly, the etymological origins of world tend more toward time and historicity (as in “the age… more ›

• Extreme Humanism and the Name(d): A Leap over the Threshold of Language (Part I of IV)

  Jul 8

  What is the nature of language? What is the language of nature? Is it solely language that distinguishes human beings from animals, or is the difference between the two more… more ›

• Utopian Time & Space: De/(Con)structions of Babel (Part III of III)

  Jun 23

  Even More seems aware of these shifting borders as he attempts an analogous, albeit rhetorical, configuration throughout his text. First we have More as author, here to relate the tale… more ›

• Utopian Time & Space: De/(Con)structions of Babel (Part II of III)

  Jun 21

  At the exact opposite end of history from Eden, we have the notion of the New Jerusalem, a utopian space carved out somewhere between a new heaven and a new… more ›

• Utopian Time & Space: De/(Con)structions of Babel (Part I of III)

  Jun 19

  Cultural notions of perfection in social organization find their origins in Thomas More’s Utopia, a text that inscribes on our collective cultural consciousness the very concept of utopia itself. More’s… more ›