Tongues of Fire: Articulations of and against Terror (Part I of IV)
In his eighth thesis on the philosophy of history, written during the spring of 1940, Walter Benjamin writes, One reason […]
Category: essay
Extreme Humanism and the Name(d): A Leap over the Threshold of Language (Part IV of IV)
Throughout his later work, Heidegger carefully divests us human beings from our subjectivism, our techno-productionist views of the world, as […]
Extreme Humanism and the Name(d): A Leap over the Threshold of Language (Part III of IV)
At first glance, the abyss separating human beings from animals within Heidegger’s work seems to allow for the greater possibility […]
Extreme Humanism and the Name(d): A Leap over the Threshold of Language (Part II of IV)
World comes to the fore within Heidegger’s exploration of the humanity of human beings. Significantly, the etymological origins of world […]
Extreme Humanism and the Name(d): A Leap over the Threshold of Language (Part I of IV)
What is the nature of language? What is the language of nature? Is it solely language that distinguishes human beings […]
Utopian Time & Space: De/(Con)structions of Babel (Part III of III)
Even More seems aware of these shifting borders as he attempts an analogous, albeit rhetorical, configuration throughout his text. First […]
Utopian Time & Space: De/(Con)structions of Babel (Part II of III)
At the exact opposite end of history from Eden, we have the notion of the New Jerusalem, a utopian space […]
Utopian Time & Space: De/(Con)structions of Babel (Part I of III)
Cultural notions of perfection in social organization find their origins in Thomas More’s Utopia, a text that inscribes on our […]
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 […]
