Street Talk

This essay investigates the fragile intersection where rumor and a more authentic modality of language can be shown to cross over into one another. Treating the relationship of Benjamin, Heidegger and Rousseau to rumoro-logical paranoia, Street-Talk interprets the epistemological teetering between the knowing and not-knowing around which Fama articulates her power. All three of these thinkers are shown to be exemplarily afflicted by rumorous utterances and share a drive to create, in their works, a rumor control center. Often these controls take over the features which they attempt to disown; thus the greatest moment of truth-telling appropriates the form of inferential small-talk. The essay analyzes a temporality of writing disclosed by Rousseau\u27s Promenades in terms of an après-ma-mort structure. Finally, guided by Blanchot\u27s insights and Huet\u27s notion of monsterized publicity, the essay addresses the rapport of rumor to oeuvre: Ecce Fama

A falta de tato de um fadeout

Meditação auto/heterobiográfica sobre a obra de Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe

The Passing of Print

This paper argues that ephemera is a key instrument of cultural memory, marking the things intended to be forgotten. This important role means that when ephemera survives, whether accidentally or deliberately, it does so despite itself. These survivals, because they evoke all those other objects that have necessarily been forgotten, can be described as uncanny. The paper is divided into three main sections. The first situates ephemera within an uncanny economy of memory and forgetting. The second focuses on ephemera at a particular historical moment, the industrialization of print in the nineteenth century. This section considers the liminal place of newspapers and periodicals in this period, positioned as both provisional media for information as well as objects of record. The third section introduces a new configuration of technologies – scanners, computers, hard disks, monitors, the various connections between them – and considers the conditions under which born-digital ephemera can linger and return. Through this analysis, the paper concludes by considering digital technologies as an apparatus of memory, setting out what is required if we are not to be doubly haunted by the printed ephemera within the digital archive

BIGLY Mistweated: On Civic Grievance

In the wake of decelerating Authority, the current US administration exposes predatory greed and masculinist pathologies that write-up our political bodies. Taking off from the works of Jacques Derrida, Paul Celan and Melanie Klein, the essay probes key moments of destructive behaviours that characterize the new Administration and pursues aspects and implications of the nihilistic disclosure that we must stare down. A rhetorical analysis of Trumpian obscenity as well as an investigation into the returning phantasms associated with Germany structure the argument. The end of the essay reopens the case of Hamlet, where justice and immaturity fight to the finish

BIGLY Mistweated: On Civic Grievance

In the wake of decelerating Authority, the current US administration exposes predatory greed and masculinist pathologies that write-up our political bodies. Taking off from the works of Jacques Derrida, Paul Celan and Melanie Klein, the essay probes key moments of destructive behaviours that characterize the new Administration and pursues aspects and implications of the nihilistic disclosure that we must stare down. A rhetorical analysis of Trumpian obscenity as well as an investigation into the returning phantasms associated with Germany structure the argument. The end of the essay reopens the case of Hamlet, where justice and immaturity fight to the finish.In the wake of decelerating Authority, the current US administration exposes predatory greed and masculinist pathologies that write-up our political bodies. Taking off from the works of Jacques Derrida, Paul Celan and Melanie Klein, the essay probes key moments of destructive behaviours that characterize the new Administration and pursues aspects and implications of the nihilistic disclosure that we must stare down. A rhetorical analysis of Trumpian obscenity as well as an investigation into the returning phantasms associated with Germany structure the argument. The end of the essay reopens the case of Hamlet, where justice and immaturity fight to the finish