Tag Archives: Derrida

Borings, Etchings and Tracks; Coprolites and Regurgitaliths

Posted on March 30, 2012 by

Some more very brief thoughts on what the other day I called “incisive” or “indexical” sound compositions, which do not attempt to orchestrate tone within time signatures or harmonic structures, so much as use sounds to carve into reality. Now … Continue reading →

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Culture as Continous Problem

Posted on August 8, 2011 by

/Student/: That is quite a house…I understand what middle voice can look like, now. I don’t think I’ll fully understand how this links to Colomina and Woolf, unless middle voice can also be used to destroy the opposition between inner … Continue reading →

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Culture as Disfiguration – Against Rousseau

Posted on July 14, 2011 by

Grebo Mask Côte d’Ivoire Pablo Picasso Guitar (1914) Museum of Modern Art, New York It is possible, that there are literary qualities in the fiction of high modernist Joseph Conrad, in particular the very famous novella “Heart of Darkness”, which … Continue reading →

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History & Trauma ~ Civilization & Its Discontents

Posted on May 25, 2011 by

“I shall not recapitulate the disasters of the Alexandrian library,” Edward Gibbon writes in the fifty-first chapter of the The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. The historian resolves, with these words, to remain silent about … Continue reading →

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“Living In The Land of The Lost”

Posted on May 23, 2011 by

The illusion of the freedom of the ego can be better understood by reviewing to the notion of the automaton. Remember that Descartes was able to gain mastery over the res extensa by declaring it to be purely passive and … Continue reading →

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