Category: academia

• Quaeritur: Aber ein Sturm…

  Dec 30

  How does a poet write history? I once began with this question. But after several years of focusing on the first part of my questionable query, I find myself now… more ›

• Bullet-Point Friday: Words

  Oct 24

  I somehow managed to pass the 10,000-word mark on Chapter Two this afternoon. That was my goal when I sat down several weeks ago to work on my dissertation. I… more ›

• Bullet-Point Friday: The Bewitching Hour

  Oct 9

  When I still lived in Kansas all those years ago, I would wake up in the middle of the night terrified out of my skin because of the witch sitting… more ›

• Tongues of Fire: Articulations of and against Terror (Part II of IV)

  Aug 28

  Question 1 Is terror-power the same in all cases, or is there a qualitative difference between terror-power employed by a state and that employed by a non-state actor? Are there… more ›

• CFP: Levinas and Asian Thought

  Aug 10

  I am thrilled and proud to be a part of this edited volume. Here are some links to our call for papers for Levinas and Asian Thought: Australasian Society for… more ›

• Tongues of Fire: Articulations of and against Terror (Part I of IV)

  Jul 31

  In his eighth thesis on the philosophy of history, written during the spring of 1940, Walter Benjamin writes, One reason why Fascism has a chance is that in the name… more ›

• Byzantium/Old Istanbul (A Translation)

  Jul 24

  Byzantium The unpurged images of day recede;The Emperor’s drunken soldiery are abed;Night resonance recedes, night walkers’ songAfter great cathedral gong;A starlit or a moonlit dome disdainsAll that man is,All mere… 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 ›