Category: gods
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In his Ecce Homo Nietzsche defines his term immoralist (“Why I Am a Destiny” §4, trans Walter Kaufmann). In this one term lies two negations: the negation of the type of person who… more ›
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Anselm Kiefer’s Sol Invictus Kiefer is one of my favorite living artists, and I’m happy to live near Fort Worth, where many of his works are housed. I post this here… more ›
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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 ›
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“State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its mouth: ‘I, the state, am the people.’” – Zarathustra Most… more ›
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Richard Rolle abandoned the intellectual life and his academic training at Oxford to take to the frock in meditation upon the name of Christ. He didn’t have much of an… more ›
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I’ve been reading Ricoeur as a near-end-of-the-semester treat, so I’m not sure if I even have anything to say about words. What I can say is that words speak themselves:… more ›
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Only two classes down. But for the third class, I already have an incomplete/extension. So, for the most part, I’m done with the semester. Done with coursework altogether. Not counting,… more ›
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Protokoll: M. Heidegger’s Being and Time Έν άρχη ήν ̀ο λόγος… “Wherever I begin, it is all one to me, for there I shall return again.” – Parmenides At first,… more ›
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“Emptiness is loneliness, and loneliness is cleanlinessAnd cleanliness is godliness, and god is empty just like me.”–Smashing Pumpkins’ “Zero” I am wholly incapable of describing my g*d for my g*d… more ›
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In honor of a Japanese tradition I recently learned about, I have chosen sempū as the kanji to represent the passing year. Sempū means “whirlwind” and is written thus: From… more ›