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Nobel laureate Kenzaburo Oe writes about Hiroshima, moral responsibility, outrage, and aging in today’s The New York Times op-ed section. […]
Category: history
At Once: A Second Word in Passing
In eins Dreizehnter Feber. Im Herzmund erwachtes Schibboleth. Mit dir, Peuple de Paris. No pasarán. 5 Schäfchen zur Linken: er, […]
Password … Said in Passing
Schibboleth Mitsamt meinen Steinen, den großgeweinten hinter den Gittern, schleiften sie mich 5 in die Mitte des Marktes, dorthin, wo […]
Quaeritur: Aber ein Sturm…
How does a poet write history? I once began with this question. But after several years of focusing on the […]
I Shall Die
One of the first concerts I attended was a Peter, Paul and Mary reunion tour through Dallas in 1986. I […]
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 […]
