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Recent Posts
- Gluing Toothpicks
- Why Hope Never Ends
- My Verdict on Bataille
- Journey to Catholicism (new site: marianweigh.com)
- With Them Without Words: A non-dual heritage of future language
- Moral Perfectionism
- A Curriculum of Essence
- 4 Poems at Sequestrum
- The Swerve of Poetry Matures
- Alain Badiou – The Theory of Covering and the Ethics of the Idea
- Sovereign Disregard: On Bataille’s Accursed Share
- Adventure of Poetry (podcast)
- INDEX TO AWE (poem)
- Intimacy of Air
- Utopic Expressivity: On Laruelle’s Oraxiomatic Method and Paul Celan’s Vision of Poetry
- TUMBLE THUS pt. 1 (video poem)
- Bhakti and its sant-poets
- MIDNIGHT STRIKE
- Critique of Judgment, by Pascal Quignard (Richard)
- Generic Hopes
Key Materials
- A Mind in Relief
- At the Ends of Art
- BOTTOMED OUT
- Community of Equals
- Credible Sources
- Death, resurrected
- Doing Nothing
- Due to the Other
- Faith vs. Utopia
- From Sacrifice to Speech
- Glad Tidings
- Gott sei Dank
- Graceful Erasure
- Imaginary Love
- In Light of U-topia
- Indifferent Angel
- Intimacy Estranged
- Intimate Dark
- Joy and Justice
- Just Listening
- MIDNIGHT STRIKE
- Nihilism and the Absolute
- Nontology
- Ordeals
- Phrase of Promise
- Preparing for Utopia
- SEA'S WEIGHT
- Shudder
- Silence-writing
- Silent Consonants of the Named
- Sovereign Disregard
- Sparing Language
- Spirituo-materiality
- Thoughtscape
- Ultimate Concerns
- Utopic Expressivity
- Virtual Justice
FOR NOW
Studies
- Adi Da & Truth
- Agamben & Infancy
- Agamben's Philosophy
- Althusser & Encounter
- Aristotle & Difficulty
- Bataille & Communication
- Bataille & General Energy
- Bataille & Intimacy
- Bataille & Sovereignty
- Being-in-Language
- Blumenthal & Being
- Boredom & Terror
- Cixous & Writing
- De Botton & Atheism
- Ernst Bloch & Hope
- Krishnamurti & Thought
- Marcuse & Utopia
- Marx & Hegel & Activity
- Nancy & Manifestations
- Nancy & Sacrifice
- Nancy & Valuation
- Nancy & Writing
- Paul Celan & Poetry
- Peter Osborne & Time
- Politics & Symbolics
- Rancière & Beginning
- Santner & Sovereignty
- Simone Weil & Grace
- St. James & Speech
- Wittgenstein & Poetry
- Žižek & Communism
Translations
- Badiou – Ethics of the Idea
- Badiou – Four Accesses to the Infinite
- Chretien – The Christian Topic
- Freud – Transitoriness
- Heidegger – At the End of a Still Day
- Houellebecq – Creative Absurdity
- Houellebecq – Staying Alive
- Jean Wahl – Poetry as a Spiritual Exercise
- Laruelle – The Despair of Philosophy
- Laruelle – The Specter of Non-Philosophy
- Laruelle – Levinas-Effects
- Nancy – An experience at heart
- Nancy – Resistance to Poetry
- Nancy – Verbum caro Factum
- Rene Char – On Poetry
Piano Albums
Non-Philosophy
- Being(-logos)
- Laruelle (interview): Concept-Collider
- Levinas-Effects
- Note on Immanence
- Omega
- Peace Unpositioned
- Self-Constraints
- Self-Constraints II
- Self-Constraints III
- Self-Constraints IV
- Self-Constraints V
- Self-Constraints VI
- Self-Constraints VII
- Teleiopoesis
- The Despair of Philosophy
- The Specter of Non-Philosophy
- Utopic Expressivity
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Monthly Archives: January 2012
Liturgy
I wanted to add a few ideas to my previous post Nontology, where I discussed the difference between theory and poetry. I have purposely not “refreshed my memory” as to the particulars of that argument. I remember speaking of theory … Continue reading
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Tagged children, death, deaths and births, existence, genealogy, infancy, Kant, liturgy, maturity, newness, poetry, public use of reason, Shakespeare, social identity, thought poetry
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Worthiness to be
Can one become unworthy of being? It is palpable that one approaches a monstrosity here. These words come toward the end of Hans Blumenberg’s recently translated “Care Crosses the River.” In his short section entitled “Concern for the Worthiness of … Continue reading
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Child’s play
We’re accustomed to the idea that we have lost our childlike imagination, creativity, and open-ended perception of the world. Anyone who has spent time with a young child can attest to this. World and self seem to emerge as one … Continue reading
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