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
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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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From a letter to Elizabeth Bowen (12 January 1936): Thanks ever so much for sending the flowers which are in… 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
The question what is philosophy? can perhaps be posed only late in life [. . .] in a moment of quiet restlessness,… READ MORE
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Deleuze tells Clare Parnet (near the end of “P for Professor”) of his preference for “movements” over “schools.” Here is… READ MORE
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In the final chapter of Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation, Gilles Deleuze writes: We might assume that the [Baconian] diagram… READ MORE
Today I finally got my last desk copy of the semester from Oxford University Press. Here it is: I haven’t… READ MORE