We know that a text does not consist of a line of words, releasing a single “theological” meaning (the “message” of the Author-God), but is a space of many dimensions, in which are wedded and contested various kinds of writing, no one of which is original: the text is a tissue of citations, resulting from … Continue reading Undead Authors // Deuteronomy
You shall not pollute the land in which you live; for blood pollutes the land, and no expiation can be made for the land, for the blood that is shed in it, except by the blood of the one who shed it. Numbers 35.33 The tale spoke clearly: whatever brotherhood human beings may be … Continue reading A Trace of Blood // Genesis
On that which follows terror. Nothing in his fucked-up study of black history had ever hipped him to this: The long life of a people can use their fugitivity, their grief, their history for good. This isn't magic, this is how it was, and how it will always be. This is how we keep our … Continue reading Becoming Undone // Arendt and Butler
On imagining futures. A philosophical attempt to write a general world history according to a plan of nature which aims at a perfect civil association of mankind must be considered possible and even helpful to this intention of nature. Immanuel Kant, “Idea for a Universal History with Cosmopolitan Intent” (1784) Capitalism is what is … Continue reading The Ends of the World // Kant and Fisher
