I’m having a renewed interest in matters German, partly in preparation for and partly as expressed in a plan to soon read more Kant, as a rather long detour on the way to aesthetic questions. It’s bit frustrating as I like to have a clearer map than I currently do of what I’m after, and because my German is pretty scheisse, but I think there’s a possible coherence to be stitched together later. The immediate points I can see are a dislike on my part for certain postructuralisms I’ve encountered and a dislike for certain Hegelianisms, both primarily in relation to Marxism, and a general interest in the past as contemporary with the present (a la a tesseract or perhaps a dialectical image). Two-fold interest then, put schematically, in historiography and in some specific historical contents obscured by bad accounts, with two purposes - one to disentangle from bad accounts (to not get tied up in knots), and another to clear space for moments that have their own sort of … loveliness. (more…)
June 23, 2006
… is presupposed by the concept of totality?
June 15, 2006
… is enlightenment?
I’m fucking sophisticated as fuck. No, for real. Check this shit out. (more…)