Barabbas, Son of the Father (In Our Age)
It was unanimous: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John have the Jews calling out the name Barabbas, calling out for Barabbas’s […]
Category: memory
The Ruination and Salvation of Life/Writing, Part II
Because writing, for Blanchot, exposes all of us (authors, readers, translators, interpreters) to the impersonal anonymity of (and in) language, […]
The Ruination and Salvation of Life/Writing, Part I
The myth of the origin of written language as told by Socrates in the Phaedrus: Theuth declares that written language, […]
Into the Past, Part I
I spent a few hours the other day cleaning out my study, throwing out, shredding, and recycling various papers I’ve […]
Diēs caniculārēs
In these dog days of July, I feel the heat dissipating every ounce of strength my body once contained. My […]
A Memory (Once More)
Erinnerung Und du wartest, erwartest das Eine, das dein Leben unendlich vermehrt; das Mächtige, Ungemeine, das Erwachen der Steine, Tiefen, […]
