On Dada (Part 1 of 2)
What we seem to have here is a problem of genealogy. At times, Blanchot parses surrealism inflected as dada and […]
What we seem to have here is a problem of genealogy. At times, Blanchot parses surrealism inflected as dada and […]
The ‘creditor’ always becomes more humane as his wealth increases; finally, the amount of his wealth determines how much injury he […]
In the early nineteenth century Friedrich D. E. Schleiermacher rejected the specialized hermeneutics of medieval philosophy (that is, theological, juridical, […]
According to the myth of the origin of written language as told by Socrates in the Phaedrus, Theuth declares that written […]
Imagine being a historian of nineteenth-century Paris and your academic publisher demanding to see the original city before accepting your […]
Spirit/soul/life, pneuma/pysché/zoè or bios, spiritus/anima/vita, Geist/Seele/Leben—these are the triangles and squares in which we imprudently pretend to recognize stable semantic […]
Recently I read Michael Marder’s Plant-Thinking: A Philosophy of Vegetal Life. I liked it well enough. It offers an erudite […]
Philosophy in Mexico, philosophy in Latin America has suffered the loss of its most distinguished cultivators. Faced with so painful […]
Jean Baudrillard’s 1981 Simulacra and Simulation, translated by Sheila Faria Glaser in 1994, contains a four-page essay entitled “Hypermarket and […]