I did not understand Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak the first time I read these words (which begin her essay “More on Power/Knowledge” in… READ MORE
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A friend and I have begun reading Gil Anidjar’s Blood: A Critique of Christianity (2014). It’s a daunting book, one that almost… READ MORE
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Here, as The Years (1937) approaches completion, Woolf speaks concretely. What have I been doing all my life? From a letter to… READ MORE
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From a letter to Elizabeth Bowen (12 January 1936): Thanks ever so much for sending the flowers which are in… READ MORE
Territorial Frame (William Wordsworth, “The Ruined Cottage,” Major Works [OUP]) I rose and turned towards a group of trees Which midway in that… READ MORE
My slow reading of the full paragraph on pg. 31 of DR was incomplete in my last slow reading post. Let’s… READ MORE
A student recently asked me if I would be willing to work with him on a one-credit directed study of Jacques… READ MORE
Originally posted on AGENT SWARM: Benjamin Hagen quotes and comments on the beginning lines of Deleuze and Guattari’s WHAT IS… READ MORE
The question what is philosophy? can perhaps be posed only late in life [. . .] in a moment of quiet restlessness,… READ MORE