Frankfurt, Germany - Zagreb, Croatia - Leuven, Belgium - New York, USA - Lopud, Croatia
Institutionally trained as an anthropologist (PhD, Columbia University, 2007). Self-trained as a philosopher. Teacher and writer on art & politics. Supervisors: Michael Taussig
This paper delves into writings of Brazilian author Clarice Lispector (1920-1977) and their oracu... more This paper delves into writings of Brazilian author Clarice Lispector (1920-1977) and their oracular, “spellular,” and emanationist modalities. The analysis itself follows the same axiomatic-enigmatic style of the writer under consideration. The treatment of the writer as an ancient sibyl figure reveals a very specific subterranean monism, which is a sui generis contribution to this central philosophical problem. The focus of the paper is on matters of style and their aesthetic and cosmological consequences.
There is something of the seventeenth century methodology present in The Oyster, as multiple disc... more There is something of the seventeenth century methodology present in The Oyster, as multiple disciplines (philosophy, literature, visual art, biology, architecture) converge within the experiences of thinking, eating, and diagramming. The center stage is given to a humble mollusk, which becomes an object, a subject, a sentient consciousness, and an alien will, progressively and then even simultaneously. In The Oyster we also find a pan-psychic attitude, something of a vital materialist disposition. This investigation reveals to the reader contingent details about the aesthetic origin of the universe by: a) ingesting the oyster’s interior; and b) carefully traversing its sharp outer surface and polished interior space. Here reading, writing, creating, cooking, digesting become an act of filtering. The essential glorious trait of the oyster.
Hostage-space is where aesthetics and terrorism touch intimately and dangerously. Art, theology, ... more Hostage-space is where aesthetics and terrorism touch intimately and dangerously. Art, theology, politics, literature all partake of this spatial constellation. Fear, veiling, immunity, peace, prophet's cloak, dust, community, camouflage, territory... all fractals of the same universe based on the criteria that magnetically pulls them together: enmity.
This paper delves into writings of Brazilian author Clarice Lispector (1920-1977) and their oracu... more This paper delves into writings of Brazilian author Clarice Lispector (1920-1977) and their oracular, “spellular,” and emanationist modalities. The analysis itself follows the same axiomatic-enigmatic style of the writer under consideration. The treatment of the writer as an ancient sibyl figure reveals a very specific subterranean monism, which is a sui generis contribution to this central philosophical problem. The focus of the paper is on matters of style and their aesthetic and cosmological consequences.
There is something of the seventeenth century methodology present in The Oyster, as multiple disc... more There is something of the seventeenth century methodology present in The Oyster, as multiple disciplines (philosophy, literature, visual art, biology, architecture) converge within the experiences of thinking, eating, and diagramming. The center stage is given to a humble mollusk, which becomes an object, a subject, a sentient consciousness, and an alien will, progressively and then even simultaneously. In The Oyster we also find a pan-psychic attitude, something of a vital materialist disposition. This investigation reveals to the reader contingent details about the aesthetic origin of the universe by: a) ingesting the oyster’s interior; and b) carefully traversing its sharp outer surface and polished interior space. Here reading, writing, creating, cooking, digesting become an act of filtering. The essential glorious trait of the oyster.
Hostage-space is where aesthetics and terrorism touch intimately and dangerously. Art, theology, ... more Hostage-space is where aesthetics and terrorism touch intimately and dangerously. Art, theology, politics, literature all partake of this spatial constellation. Fear, veiling, immunity, peace, prophet's cloak, dust, community, camouflage, territory... all fractals of the same universe based on the criteria that magnetically pulls them together: enmity.
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