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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
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- 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
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- 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: March 2012
An Experience At Heart (by Jean-Luc Nancy)
The following is my translation of Jean-Luc Nancy’s text, “Une experience au cœur,” collected in his La Declosion (Déconstruction du christianisme, 1), pgs. 117-123. The practical reasons for translating this text are twofold: one, I wanted to share publicly a piece from … Continue reading
Graceful Erasure
Famous adventure of art: Robert Rauschenberg knocks on Bill de Kooning’s apartment door and presents him with an idea, to erase one of his masterpieces. He had been experimenting with erasing his own drawings, but realized that it would never … Continue reading
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Preparing for Utopia
In a dialog entitled “Something’s Missing,” Ernst Bloch and Theodore Adorno agree that there shall be no positive conception or vision of utopia. Adorno even links this interdiction to the biblical one against graven images. Utopian thinking then consists in … Continue reading
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