I. PHILOSOPHY AND THE SEXES It is commonly alleged that philosophy as a systematic willing erects itself on the foreclosure of sexual difference. True, it is not in the most consistent parts of this willing that the word “woman”, from Plato to Nietzsche, tends to arrive at a concept. Is this not perhaps the vocation of … Continue reading What is Love? Alain Badiou
There is love in its endless applications: love without limits, the love of humanity, of the world, of music, of the sea and the mountains, of poetry. There is the love of philosophy, which is called love of wisdom, which, in turn, seems to consist only in loving what one cannot judge, know, or reject: … Continue reading SEXISTENCE
What quality fascinates and entrances me in the photographs I love? I believe it is this: for me, photography in some way captures the Last Judgment; it represents the world as it appears on the last day, the Day of Wrath. Continue reading “Judgment Day”
An Interpretation of the The Storyteller: Reflections on the Works of Nikolai Leskóv Walter Benjamin begins The Storyteller: Reflections on the Works of Nikolai Leskóv with a pang of nostalgia for the extinct practice of storytelling: “the storyteller in his living immediacy is by no means a present force. He has already become something remote … Continue reading The Storyteller: Reflections on the Works of Nikolai Leskóv
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At 74 years old, Jacques Derrida, world-renowned philosopher, pursues his intellectual journey with a singular intensity even as he confronts serious illness. At his home in Ris-Orangis, a suburb of Paris, he talks to Le Monde about his work, his plans, and his legacy. Since the summer for 2003 you’ve been everywhere. You’ve not only … Continue reading I am at war with myself
“I don’t say things because they are what I think, I say them as a way to make sure they no longer are what I think” [pdf] Michel Foucault the Last Interview 1984 Continue reading Foucault — The Lost Interview
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