Without Night
Asleep, I recited or imagined myself reciting lines (to be exact: though I was saying nothing, I was nonetheless […]
Category: blanchot
The Plat Thickens: A Review of John Trefry’s Plats
In his Meditations, Descartes cites watching people bundled in winter dress at a distance as an example of the gap […]
On Dada (Part 2 of 2)
With dada, Ball here, as in his poetry, dispenses with conventional, communicative language. Both dada as well as dada show […]
On Dada (Part 2 of 2)
With dada, Ball here, as in his poetry, dispenses with conventional, communicative language. Both dada as well as dada show […]
On Dada (Part 1 of 2)
What we seem to have here is a problem of genealogy. At times, Blanchot parses surrealism inflected as dada and […]
On Dada (Part 1 of 2)
What we seem to have here is a problem of genealogy. At times, Blanchot parses surrealism inflected as dada and […]
NEH Evaluations, or Academics are Cunts
I applied for an NEH Fellowship for my Blanchot book. Today I received my evaluations. I want everyone to know […]
Memory of the Word
According to the myth of the origin of written language as told by Socrates in the Phaedrus, Theuth declares that written […]
