A Queer World (In Three Quotes)
“IN the Morocco of the 1980s, where homosexuality did not, of course, exist, I was an effeminate little boy, a […]
Category: nature
Plant-Thinking
Recently I read Michael Marder’s Plant-Thinking: A Philosophy of Vegetal Life. I liked it well enough. It offers an erudite […]
On the Prosthetic
After spending a few hours this past week trying on new frames and ordering new lenses for distance vision, now […]
The Homolithic: The Stone that Remains
The space of human being opens onto the geological, inscribing strata of geological time into the very arche-writing of the […]
Irigarayan Deinos & the Distance of Home, Part IV
Reflecting the double abysses, a “double power” seems to surround man as well: the power of the natural universe around […]
Irigarayan Deinos & the Distance of Home, Part III
To separate oneself from others and from our environment is the original violence we do, both to others as well […]
Irigarayan Deinos & the Distance of Home, Part II
The I of the Storm Reminding us that nature—as opposed or exterior to (masculine) human culture—is more than just tempest […]
Irigarayan Deinos & the Distance of Home, Part I
“Do not seek to go home.” – Chorus, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus “Home is where I want to be, but […]
Vox Animalis
The animal voice comes from beyond the body, resonates throughout the body. Its significance resides in the echo of the […]
Extreme Humanism and the Name(d): A Leap over the Threshold of Language (Part IV of IV)
Throughout his later work, Heidegger carefully divests us human beings from our subjectivism, our techno-productionist views of the world, as […]
