Party of the Uncertain
"If there were a party of those who aren't sure they're right, I'd belong to it." Albert Camus
Bataille and Religion
“From the start, the introduction of labor into the world replaced intimacy, the depth of desire and its free outbreaks, with rational progression, where what matters is no longer the … Continue reading
Tarkovsky, Time, and (a Little Bit of) Tech
I’ve been watching a lot of Russian films lately; most recently, Andrei Konchalovsky‘s Siberiade took me through almost a century’s worth of one village’s history, along with the often-universal questions … Continue reading
Good Friday Reflection
I participated in the Good Friday service at Luther Place Memorial Church. Each of the seven final words of Jesus were assigned to a person who prepared a reflection to … Continue reading
Tax Resistance and Symbolic Protest
On Friday, I attended the monthly session called “Clarification of Thought” at the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker. The chairs were arranged to face one side of this rather humble living … Continue reading
Where Were the Women?
I finally saw The Sorrow and the Pity last night; among other things, I couldn’t bear to watch Annie Hall one more time without being reminded of the gaping hole … Continue reading
One Proposed Step Toward Greater Collective Sanity
“In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible.” George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language” Election seasons grow more painful with every ridiculous round. … Continue reading
An Inoperative Ethic?
At the moment, I’m reading Jean-Luc Nancy‘s The Inoperative Community which I find myself both enjoying and disliking in ways I struggle to put into words. I enjoyed Being Singular … Continue reading
Notes on Nietzsche’s “Twilight of the Idols”
It’s been almost 5 years since I first encountered Friedrich Nietzsche‘s thought in the books On the Genealogy of Morals and Beyond Good and Evil. I recently returned to Nietzsche, … Continue reading
Harlem and Palestine
“This innocent country set you down in a ghetto in which, in fact, it intended that you should perish. Let me spell out precisely what I mean by that, for … Continue reading
