Trash Theory: The “Young-Girl” Deployment

Premiers Matériaux pour une Théorie de la Jeune-Fille I just found this weird little book. It’s been referenced here and Continue reading →

Portals

Do things not seem quite what they were before? Can’t put a finger on it? Didn’t Rosalyn Carter die? No. 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 →

The Basilisk

It’s been impossible to think of a world without AI since 2065, but The Basilisk was originally named by a Continue reading →

The Metamorphosis and The Lobster: 100 Years of Power and Dehumanization

Reviews of Yorgos Lanthimos’s 2015 film The Lobster seem to be about fifty-fifty on whether they use the term Kafka-esque, Continue reading →

On the Political Significance of the Abolition of Time in Literature

Let us begin with a question: when, precisely, did literature’s well know deployment of non-linear time begin? We know the Continue reading →

The Cherubim Collection

I went down to run the body, sank in the colored maps of arteries and veins. I ended on my Continue reading →

Rediscovering the Past: The Value of Rereading Books

“A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a Continue reading →