(or, being on the edge of something) for anything with “textual” qualities first identify a movement, an exchange of meaning, between the literary and the real (this is blatant disciplinary imperialism) think of it as “poetics of culture”–meaning, in other words, is a relationship (Surprise! meaning is only (barely) graspable, a little wispy watch for …
Patterns: writing
Autogenealogy
In the temporary absence of original thought (if, indeed, there is such a thing), a couple of tidbits from my own intellectual family tree: [C]ertain organisms, such as man, tend for a time to maintain and often even to increase the level of their organization, as a local enclave in the general stream of increasing …
Sameness and difference
Like Foucault and those who have followed him, I am interested in the “how” of power. This form of power is played out both between and within individuals, and it is made necessary and rendered visible by the irreducible materiality of psychopharmaceutical technologies. Revealing and tracing these inter- and intra-personal technologies is a crucial first …
