Embrace/Suffering
“Talent deprived of the gift of sorrow produces only near-values.” In 1932, John Graham completed Embrace, a 30 x 36 […]
Category: θεωρία
On touching
In touching others, he touches himself. In touch, he becomes the object of his own touch insofar as the surface […]
Malevich and Suprematism, Part 3: A Desert of Pure Feeling
Since I have sworn that I would not pursue retranslating Malevich’s Suprematism manifesto until after completing the dissertation, I’ll use […]
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 […]
Extreme Humanism and the Name(d): A Leap over the Threshold of Language (Part III of IV)
At first glance, the abyss separating human beings from animals within Heidegger’s work seems to allow for the greater possibility […]
Extreme Humanism and the Name(d): A Leap over the Threshold of Language (Part II of IV)
World comes to the fore within Heidegger’s exploration of the humanity of human beings. Significantly, the etymological origins of world […]
Extreme Humanism and the Name(d): A Leap over the Threshold of Language (Part I of IV)
What is the nature of language? What is the language of nature? Is it solely language that distinguishes human beings […]
Utopian Time & Space: De/(Con)structions of Babel (Part III of III)
Even More seems aware of these shifting borders as he attempts an analogous, albeit rhetorical, configuration throughout his text. First […]
Utopian Time & Space: De/(Con)structions of Babel (Part II of III)
At the exact opposite end of history from Eden, we have the notion of the New Jerusalem, a utopian space […]
Utopian Time & Space: De/(Con)structions of Babel (Part I of III)
Cultural notions of perfection in social organization find their origins in Thomas More’s Utopia, a text that inscribes on our […]
