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Recent Posts
- Disbelief in Idiom
- Arch-Horizon of the Goal
- On Cosmic Pessimism
- The Debt and its Flame
- SMOOTH LANDING
- Absolute Flow
- Anti-Mysticism
- The Spanda Principle
- Le Sentiment Souverain d’Existence Pleine
- Two Types of Identity
- Ariel and Prospero
- Distinctions of “The Nothing”
- Bucking the System
- Enquête sur la vérité après beaucoup de fautes (Note sur l’invention non-religieuse)
- Allegories for the Void
- A Celanian Paradigm for Thought
- Doing (the) Nothing: Suspending the Apparatus of Glory
- Letter to John III (Poems & Piths)
- Letter to John II (Additions)
- Letter to John I (The Letter)
Key Materials
- A Buttercup for Your Suffering
- A Celanian Paradigm for Thought
- A Mind in Relief
- ALTAR-GRAY GAZE OF A SHOWMAN ON THE BRINK
- At the Ends of Art
- BOTTOMED OUT
- Community of Equals
- Credible Sources
- Death, resurrected
- Doing (the) 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
- The Swerve of Poetry Matures
- Thoughtscape
- Ultimate Concerns
- Utopic Expressivity
- Virtual Justice
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- Politics & Symbolics
- Rancière & Beginning
- Santner & Sovereignty
- Simone Weil & Grace
- St. James & Speech
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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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- 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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Priceless presents
A subtle, little book by Jean-Luc Nancy came to me in the mail today, L’Équivalence des catastrophes (Après Fukushima), which condenses quite nicely Nancy’s “outlook” on the state of the world and the task of thinking today.
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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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