the entanglement of history: Daša Drndić’s ‘EEG’‘When was all this? Time is getting away from me again, overflowing, it will not be tamed, insane time carries me off into the madhouse of…Apr 4, 2021Apr 4, 2021
Centersin The Infinite Conversation Maurice Blanchot writes, “In Nietzsche’s work there is nothing that might be called a center.” (140) the…Mar 19, 2021Mar 19, 2021
balance: Kogonada’s ‘Columbus’Columbus is a quiet film. a patient film. like its cinematography, a cinematography that lingers on perfectly framed architecture set…Mar 12, 2021Mar 12, 2021
close looking: Marina Warner and writing about art‘I believe in close looking…not to pin down the artwork as if it were a thesis or a piece of code, but to touch the springs of the work’s…Feb 28, 2021Feb 28, 2021
on dedicationswhat does it mean to dedicate a work? to dedicate originally meant something like to consecrate, to hand something over to a god or a…Feb 21, 2021Feb 21, 2021
between the collection and the individual poemthe first book I read in 2021 was the collection of Pierre Joris’s translations of Paul Celan’s early poems called Memory Rose Into…Feb 13, 2021Feb 13, 2021
the book and the possibility of the bookperhaps no one since Mallarmé has helped us think about the book so much as Maurice Blanchot. in thinking the book, Blanchot has made…Feb 7, 2021Feb 7, 2021
the places where I remain no longera face can be an oval of love, an egg of recognition composed of parts only in retrospect. it can be a body. the entire body. of those we…Jan 30, 2021Jan 30, 2021
with the bare hands: modernism between Eliot and Williamsfor many readers of English poetry, the term ‘modern’ is nearly synonymous with the name TS Eliot. ‘The Waste Land,’ especially, carries…Sep 2, 2018Sep 2, 2018
