Category: philosophy

• Cursory Notes on Phenomenology

  Dec 23

  “Intentionality” expresses the notion that all consciousness shows itself as consciousness of. Therefore, with the employment of the phenomenological method, one escapes the interiority of egoistic solipsism and instead finds… more ›

• Day Two

  Nov 29

  Of the days on which I may have received an email or a phone call informing me that someone somewhere (see previous map) wants to interview me based upon my… more ›

• Prostrate Before Saint Genet

  Sep 19

  I spent the day focused on work and research, and yet this day has felt like debauched decadence: I began this morning reading a chapter in the Irigaray text, and then… more ›

• I’ll Tumble for You

  Aug 12

  I’ve been microblogging on Tumblr for the past few months as l’immoraliste. Usually my posts are nothing more than links for calls for papers, to conferences, and to other professional… more ›

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

  Jul 15

  Maurice Blanchot’s own biography—the writing of his life—attests to the experience of life as, through, and by way of writing. We know almost nothing about the man, even when we… 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 ›

• The Impossibility of Possibility

  Jan 24

  When I began writing this post, my first sentence was, “My grandmother will die within the next twenty-four hours.” In the time it’s taken me to complete this post, I… more ›

• In vino veritas

  Nov 18

  In a year of Thursdays, today remains the greatest Thursday of all. Today is not only World Philosophy Day but also the day on which the Beaujolais nouveau is released. I… more ›