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Forgive the lengthy quotations below. It will take a while to build up to Roland Barthes’s studium and punctum. (I explain my… READ MORE
In just a couple of weeks, I start teaching a summer course in Contemporary Lit at URI’s Kingston campus. I had a hard… READ MORE
The Road Thus Far, or What Do the Guides Say? What do other commentators make of Deleuze’s summary/critique of Aristotle?… READ MORE
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak begins her essay, “Terror: A Speech After 9/11” (2004), These ruminations arose in response to America’s war… READ MORE
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
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
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
Sketching a Present 