Art, Temporality and “Motions of the Mind”

Grossman and the Greeks  “’Everything flows, everything changes,’ said the Greek. But this is not evident from the little mounds Continue reading →

Adorno on Pleasure, 1: The Critique of Psychoanalysis

Theodor Adorno, the Arch-curmudgeon of the Frankfurt School of Critical theory, devotes a brief but substantial section of his Minima Continue reading →

Homo Sacer: The State of Exception as a Dominant Social Paradigm

Just over a year following the release of the nine volumes of Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, the Continue reading →

What Kant Means Today

When you look at a giant philosophical tome, such as here in front of me, The Critique of Pure Reason, 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 →

Creating a Character: Carver and Cheever

The short story, the ever neglected cousin of the novel, requires many of the same techniques used in the composition Continue reading →