The Banana Peel Project

The philosopher must be sufficiently perverse to play the game of truth and error badly: this perversity, which operates in paradoxes, allows him to escape the grasp of categories. But aside from this, he must be sufficiently ‘ill-humored’ to persist in his confrontation with stupidity, to remain motionless to the point of stupefaction in order […]

“Who’s watching your drink? Let your hair down, not your guard.” In bright pink with big black block lettering, of course.
“Enjoy your night.  Know your limits.  Zero tolerance towards violence.”
A textual exhibition of the physiology of alcohol (and its rapacious others).  A drug defines its own textuality, its own social limits, its own legal presence […]

The difficulties derived from the project itself, which was intended precisely to avoid them.  By programming my work over several volumes according to a plan laid down in advance, I was telling myself that the time had now come when I could write them without difficulty, and simply unwind what was in my head, confirming […]