Thesiss

Talking about time can feel like trying to build a sandcastle in a windstorm, just when you think you have the pieces perfectly placed the wind comes and begins to blow away the edges. It’s not an abrupt falling apart, but a small accumulation of deterioration that constantly ca…

By its structure and by the impressive quantity of literary presuppositions that it questions, Le Livre des questions sets itself in the margins of any classical understanding of literature. For Jabès, citation holds a central place in the book: it is one of the main elements wh…

Text Machines explores the rhetorical and technological resonances of Martin Heidegger’s “event of appropriation” and Paul de Man’s “material event”. The crucial questions here are what it would mean to approach the “text machine” of which de Man writes as a “question concerning…