Tyranny of the Text
WritingThe irony is that in the year that I’ve written the most, I’ve blogged the least. You would think that […]
Category: writing
Late Modern Sculpture
It seems that I’ve gotten several new visitors to this blog from the TOL article on Prague’s late communist public […]
On the Prosthetic
After spending a few hours this past week trying on new frames and ordering new lenses for distance vision, now […]
In the Trees
Here’s a photo of me with my head literally in the trees. The clouds would’ve been too easy, too cliched. […]
An Excerpt from the Utterly Brilliant Book I’m Writing on Autographesis, the As If, and Blanchovian Phenomenology
For art to be truly free to achieve its goal of total freedom and to escape the normative exigencies that […]
Omit Thy Fog Riot
When writing about Surrealism and automatism, what better way to conduct research than to do a little automatic writing and […]
#Cities
When I was an undergraduate in the late 1980s, I wrote a series of extremely short narratives that I called […]
Roman Holiday (In Ostia down by the formless sea.)
To prepare in advance for my time in Rome (at Italian cafes), I’ve spent the past several days reading and […]
Thursday Evening
Sitting here on a Thursday evening listening to PJ Harvey play on Apple TV while Stephen bakes a cheesecake from […]
In Memory of M.B.
Burn all the books. The word is eternal. L’écriture—la maison de l’être. In abandonment, the writer writes to abandon what has been […]
