Category: essay

• Irigarayan Deinos & the Distance of Home, Part III

  Jun 21

  To separate oneself from others and from our environment is the original violence we do, both to others as well as to ourselves. Yet one’s nature inextricably links oneself to… more ›

• Irigarayan Deinos & the Distance of Home, Part II

  Jun 20

  The I of the Storm Reminding us that nature—as opposed or exterior to (masculine) human culture—is more than just tempest and maelstrom against which the human being must rage, Irigaray… more ›

• Irigarayan Deinos & the Distance of Home, Part I

  Jun 20

  “Do not seek to go home.” – Chorus, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus “Home is where I want to be, but I guess I’m already there.”  – Talking Heads, “This Must… 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 ›

• Malevich and Suprematism, Part II: Gadamerian Hermeneutics

  May 23

  In Part 1, Section 1.2B.iv “The limits of Erlebniskunst and the rehabilitation of allegory” in Truth and MethodGadamer delineates between allegory and symbol: “The symbol is the coincidence of the… more ›

• Bullet-Point Friday: Spring Writing Projects

  Apr 16

  The online academic journal borderlands out of Australia will publish my review essay of Lisa Guenther’s The Gift of the Other: Levinas and the Politics of Reproduction next month. I’ll… 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 ›

• 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 ›

• 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 ›