potentialities.

May 20

“As far as I am concerned, I resign from humanity. I no longer want to be, nor can still be, a man. What should I do? Work for a social and political system, make a girl miserable? Hunt for weaknesses in philosophical systems, fight for moral and aesthetic ideals? It’s all too little. I renounce my humanity even though I may find myself alone. But am I not already alone in this world from which I no longer expect anything?” Emil Cioran, On the Heights of Despair (via substantia-nigra)

(via agapinbeing)

May 17

“Plastic reading has its place in an exegetical economy which, because there is nothing ‘outside the text’, places the text absolutely outside itself.” Catherine Malabou

Philosophy needs a new booty.

May 11

May 8

“Where love and desire are concerned, there are no adequate examples; and all of our objects must bear the burden of exemplifying and failing what drives our attachment to them.” Lauren Berlant, Desire/Love

May 4

On plasticity and the philosophy of religion.

So I’m giving this paper at a workshop on Thursday. Thought I’d post it here because a) I’m bored and b) nobody reads my tumblr anyway.

“This still leaves the category of homme-sick animals, thereby called domestics [d’hommestiques], who for that reason are shaken, however briefly, by unconscious, seismic tremors.” 1973 (via circulationwithinmyskull)