A friend and I have begun reading Gil Anidjar’s Blood: A Critique of Christianity (2014). It’s a daunting book, one that almost coerces, given its difficult yet
Month: March 2015
Reading Woolf: “. . . inky and bitter and old.”
Here, as The Years (1937) approaches completion, Woolf speaks concretely. What have I been doing all my life? From a letter to Ethel Smyth (10 March 1936):
Reading Woolf: “. . . my usual method of recovery.”
From a letter to Elizabeth Bowen (12 January 1936): Thanks ever so much for sending the flowers which are in a great bunch in front
Romantic Triptych (On Frames): William Wordsworth – Mary Shelley – James Hogg
Territorial Frame (William Wordsworth, “The Ruined Cottage,” Major Works [OUP]) I rose and turned towards a group of trees Which midway in that level stood alone, And thither
Slow Reading (1.30): Deleuze’s DR (pg. 31)
My slow reading of the full paragraph on pg. 31 of DR was incomplete in my last slow reading post. Let’s look at the closing sentences:
Reading Lacan, Teaching Anxiety
A student recently asked me if I would be willing to work with him on a one-credit directed study of Jacques Lacan’s Anxiety seminar. Though I
Sketching a Present 