Hamacher, Minima Philologica
Minima Philologica brings together two essays by Werner Hamacher that are meant to revitalize philology as a practice beyond its restriction to the restoration of ...
Continue Reading →McEwen, Anaximander and the Articulation of Order
Anaximander was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher who lived in Miletus, a city of Ionia (in modern-day Turkey). He belonged to the Milesian school and learned ...
Continue Reading →Marinetti, The Futurist Cookbook
Both madcap cookbook and manifesto on Futurism, Marinetti’s exuberant and entertaining book has been described as one of ‘the best artistic jokes of the century’No ...
Continue Reading →Crowley, Ancient Rhetorics for Contemporary Students
‘Ancient Rhetorics for Contemporary Students’ revives the classical strategies of ancient Greek and Roman rhetoricians and adapts them to the needs of contemporary writers and ...
Continue Reading →Connor, Dumbstruck: A Cultural History of Ventriloquism
Ventriloquism, the art of seeming to speak where one is not, speaks so resonantly to our contemporary technological condition. We now think nothing of hearing ...
Continue Reading →Foucault, The Order of Discourse
Discourse, as defined by Foucault, refers to: ways of constituting knowledge, together with the social practices, forms of subjectivity and power relations which inhere in ...
Continue Reading →Clement, “The Planetary Garden” and Other Writings
Celebrated landscape architect Gilles Clément may be best known for his public parks in Paris, including the Parc André Citroën and the garden of the ...
Continue Reading →Benjamin, The Task of the Translator
Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin (/ˈbɛnjəmɪn/; German: [ˈvaltɐ ˈbɛnjamiːn];[5] 15 July 1892 – 26 September 1940)[6] was a German Jewish philosopher, cultural critic and essayist. An ...
Continue Reading →Guthrie, A History of Greek Philosophy
All volumes of Professor Guthrie’s great history of Greek philosophy have won their due acclaim. The most striking merits of Guthrie’s work are his mastery ...
Continue Reading →Cuboniks, Xenofeminism A Politics for Alienation
Injustice should not simply be accepted as “the way things are.” This is the starting point for The Xenofeminist Manifesto, a radical attempt to articulate ...
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