Category: philosophy

• Malevich and Suprematism, Part 3: A Desert of Pure Feeling

  Jun 7

  Since I have sworn that I would not pursue retranslating Malevich’s Suprematism manifesto until after completing the dissertation, I’ll use a deficient translation I found online several weeks ago. I… more ›

• Malevich and Suprematism, Part II: Gadamerian Hermeneutics

  May 23

  In Part 1, Section 1.2B.iv “The limits of Erlebniskunst and the rehabilitation of allegory” in Truth and MethodGadamer delineates between allegory and symbol: “The symbol is the coincidence of the… more ›

• Malevich and Suprematism, Part I

  May 14

  Kazimir Severinovich Malevich [Казимир Северинович Малевич] was Russian in its most contested forms: he was born in Ukraine of ethnic Poles, which would make his name Kazimierz Malewicz. I suspect… more ›

• Bullet-Point Friday: Spring Writing Projects

  Apr 16

  The online academic journal borderlands out of Australia will publish my review essay of Lisa Guenther’s The Gift of the Other: Levinas and the Politics of Reproduction next month. I’ll… more ›

• Quaeritur: Aber ein Sturm…

  Dec 30

  How does a poet write history? I once began with this question. But after several years of focusing on the first part of my questionable query, I find myself now… more ›

• Tongues of Fire: Articulations of and against Terror (Part II of IV)

  Aug 28

  Question 1 Is terror-power the same in all cases, or is there a qualitative difference between terror-power employed by a state and that employed by a non-state actor? Are there… more ›

• CFP: Levinas and Asian Thought

  Aug 10

  I am thrilled and proud to be a part of this edited volume. Here are some links to our call for papers for Levinas and Asian Thought: Australasian Society for… more ›

• Tongues of Fire: Articulations of and against Terror (Part I of IV)

  Jul 31

  In his eighth thesis on the philosophy of history, written during the spring of 1940, Walter Benjamin writes, One reason why Fascism has a chance is that in the name… 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 ›

• Extreme Humanism and the Name(d): A Leap over the Threshold of Language (Part III of IV)

  Jul 12

  At first glance, the abyss separating human beings from animals within Heidegger’s work seems to allow for the greater possibility that human beings can be seen as privileged subjects and… more ›