Category: language

• Four in the Morning

  Feb 1

  Wisława Szymborska (July 2, 1923 – February 1, 2012). Rest in peace. more ›

• The Ruination and Salvation of Life/Writing, Part II

  Jul 11

  Because writing, for Blanchot, exposes all of us (authors, readers, translators, interpreters) to the impersonal anonymity of (and in) language, our task of assigning “reality” to our experience is problematized… more ›

• The Ruination and Salvation of Life/Writing, Part I

  Jul 9

  The myth of the origin of written language as told by Socrates in the Phaedrus: Theuth declares that written language, the materiality of the word, will make the Egyptians wiser… more ›

• The Writer

  Jul 1

  ♦ The writer, his biography: he died; lived and died. The writer writes to live on. Writing to live on, her life is a kind of survival. Sur-vival: a living… more ›

• Into the Past, Part I

  Jan 1

  I spent a few hours the other day cleaning out my study, throwing out, shredding, and recycling various papers I’ve collected over the past several years in anticipation of a… more ›

• At Once: A Second Word in Passing

  Jul 2

  In eins Dreizehnter Feber.  Im Herzmund erwachtes Schibboleth.  Mit dir, Peuple de Paris.  No pasarán. 5     Schäfchen zur Linken:  er, Abadias, der Greis aus Huesca, kam mit den Hunden über… more ›

• Password … Said in Passing

  Jun 25

  Schibboleth Mitsamt meinen Steinen, den großgeweinten hinter den Gittern, schleiften sie mich 5     in die Mitte des Marktes, dorthin, wo die Fahne sich aufrollt, der ich keinerlei Eid schwor. Flöte,… more ›

• Bullet-Point Friday: Reading

  Mar 12

  Nietzsche writes in Ecce Homo that it is something like a sickness to sit down at the beginning of the day to read instead of taking a brisk walk first.… more ›

• Byzantium/Old Istanbul (A Translation)

  Jul 24

  Byzantium The unpurged images of day recede;The Emperor’s drunken soldiery are abed;Night resonance recedes, night walkers’ songAfter great cathedral gong;A starlit or a moonlit dome disdainsAll that man is,All mere… 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 ›