“The sadness will last forever.” (Vincent Van Gogh, Journals) “I had always been aware that the Universe is sad; everything in it, animate or inanimate, the wild creatures, the stones, the…
To take that first leap into thought, not eddied or pacified by fear, or desiring comfort. How few take such a leap. How many live entire lives without even one…
Living so fully inside the solace and solitude of one’s mind, finding what is most painful is in the attempt (to construe, explain, disseminate) the mind outside itself. Living so…
Just as the constative becomes the performative, so too do image-signs become language-signs (and vice versa), so that it is impossible to conceive of a word without its corresponding image,…
“The hermeneutic of the death of god.” “To expose those places where texts fissure.” “A critique of the hierarchical oppositions that have structured Western thought: inside/outside, mind/body, literal/metaphorical, speech/writing, presence/absence,…
Regarding language, is it best to be careful with our words and aware of what they do (rather than mean), to weigh the possible connotations, echoes, reverberations, all of which are infinite; or,…
