Borges on Universalism and Nationalism

Borges the Argentine No one is the homeland—it is all of us. May that clear, mysterious fire burn Without ceasing, Continue reading →

Not All Art is Beautiful (and That’s Good)

Hans Holbein’s portrait The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb (from 1521, now in the Basel Kunstmuseum) is, Continue reading →

An Oasis in the Desert of the Real: On the Relationship Between Map and Territory

“It is abstraction in its precise, literal sense… complete absence of quality, a differentiation purely by quantity and by applicability Continue reading →

Anti-Hauntology: Derrida and Stiegler on Dancing With Ghosts and Education

in a small ghost town, there’s a little arcadewhere the poltergeists play their video games In my previous post I Continue reading →

Transcendental Cinema: When the Camera Turns Upon Itself

This essay is intended as a series of case studies following the ideas I presented on the “Quixote Sub Specie Continue reading →

The Quixote Sub Specie Aeternitatis: The Philosophical Significance of the Spanish Golden Age

Todo es mentira, ya verás La poesía es la única verdad   Sacar belleza de este caos es virtud – Continue reading →

The Infinite Labyrinth of Time in Borges’ “The Garden of Forking Paths”

In his story, “The Garden of Forking Paths,” Jorge Luis Borges explores the labyrinth, the writer, and perhaps above all, Continue reading →

Calvino’s Cosmicomics: Time and the Hunter (or t zero)

To me, there’s virtually no doubt that Italo Calvino is a literary genius. Each one of his works create either Continue reading →