Without Night
Asleep, I recited or imagined myself reciting lines (to be exact: though I was saying nothing, I was nonetheless […]
Category: derrida
Bloomsday: My Conversion
Happy Bloomsday! It’s a greeting I thought I’d never say. But here we are: June 16. I’m wearing a fucking […]
Bloomsday: My Conversion
Happy Bloomsday! It’s a greeting I thought I’d never say. But here we are: June 16. I’m wearing a fucking […]
Exorbitant Stupidity
If you follow this line long enough, you get to deconstruction where a theorist would be looking for internal contractions […]
The Circumscription of Triangles & Squares
Spirit/soul/life, pneuma/pysché/zoè or bios, spiritus/anima/vita, Geist/Seele/Leben—these are the triangles and squares in which we imprudently pretend to recognize stable semantic […]
Plant-Thinking
Recently I read Michael Marder’s Plant-Thinking: A Philosophy of Vegetal Life. I liked it well enough. It offers an erudite […]
The Wounded Root
Both Edmond Jabès’s The Book of Questions and Jacques Derrida’s “Edmond Jabès and the Question of the Book” convoke with […]
Naming the Unnamable: A Commentary on 9/11 (Part II)
In an attempt to keep the open dimension of language indeed open (à la Foucault), I offer this late, preliminary, […]
Naming the Unnamable: A Commentary on 9/11 (Part I)
The quintessential moment in the history of names, at least insofar as the Western/Judeo-Christian tradition goes, is perhaps the account […]
die Anreise
I arrived in Wiesbaden yesterday morning after what was perhaps the most pleasant flight of my entire life. The difference […]
