Friday, June 13, 2008

Upcoming

1. A post on a comment of Derrida's on architecture in his very nice 1986 essay "Point de folie—maintenant l'architecture."

2. A post on the "volume" of deconstruction and its architects, with a look at Bernard Tschumi's Parc Villette, Peter Eisenman's Wexner Center, Berlin Holocaust Memorial, and Center for Culture in Spain, and Daniel Liebeskind's just-opened Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, with a denunciation of the "Freedom Tower" and revenge as the formal principle of that building.

3. Perhaps (if I have time) a post on Sarah Kofman's treatment of Ecce Homo in Explosions.

4. A post on close reading as fast reading, not slow, patient, familiarity with words on the page—that is, on close reading as distant reading, and its differences or similarities with a reading machine. Technical or even mechanized hermeneutics, in short.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Mike, we're discussing in this post Sloterdijk's somewhat strange affirmation (in his Critique of Cynical Reason) that there is a new left, a Heideggerian one.

I've been reading your posts on Zizek on Heidegger in political terms and would really like to know what you think on this regard.

I don't know if you have read Sloterdijk's assertion which appears right before the phenomenological part of his Critique...

You can always comments in English if you feel like doing so...

Anonymous said...

Ok, I meant this post...