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All Apologies

March 13, 2016

| absence, amerika, betrayal, death, disease, gay, history, ideology, kwir, memory, queer, question, voice

Any time an apology is issued, we need to ask why. Just who exactly is she apologizing to? Can you […]

Sacrament

November 14, 2015

| being, disease, evil, gifts, history, literature, poetry, polish, polska, racism, religio, spirit, translation, violence

“Światu grożą trzy plagi, trzy zarazy. Pierwsza–to plaga nacjonalizmu. Druga–to plaga rasizmu. Trzecia–to plaga religijnego fundamentalizmu. Te trzy plagi mają […]

Angela Davis

July 8, 2015

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| abuse, amerika, film, history, Kritic, racism, state-terror, violence

When ostensibly asked if she supported violence while she was in jail, Angela Davis not only explained violence, but she […]

Toward a General Hermeneutics

May 22, 2015

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| being, heidegger, hermeneutics, history, identity, meaning, philosophy, translation

In the early nineteenth century Friedrich D. E. Schleiermacher rejected the specialized hermeneutics of medieval philosophy (that is, theological, juridical, […]

Dead Babies

March 31, 2015

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| death, dream, family, history, identity, memory, name

At the edge of my undergraduate alma mater lies a cemetery for those who died in a nearby, long-since-vanished house […]

Digging Up the Past

March 12, 2015

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| film, history, identity, poland, polska

The Polish word gruz can be translated as rubble, ruins, wreckage. There is no doubt, then, that director Paweł Pawlikowski intends something specific […]