Letters Journal's Blog, page 2
September 5, 2011
Quintus Horatius Flaccus
The young bloods comes round less often now, Pelting your shutters and making a row And robbing your beauty sleep. Now the door Clings lovingly close to the jamb, though, before, It used to move on its hinge pretty fast. Those were the days – and they're almost past - When lovers stood out all [...]
August 16, 2011
Greetings from the Mouth
——— I looked down upon my hand outstretched to the meat of your palm, which grasped the top of my offered parcel / mine relinquishing it from below. & I did not recognize the skin. I felt no presence in the twitch of the fingers. I did not know we were anything but a mockery [...]
August 15, 2011
New Address
Please send correspondence, gifts, criticism, and submissions to: Don (Letters) / 3720 Spruce St, No. 250 / Philadelphia, PA 19104
July 1, 2011
Please Note
The current mailing address (838 E. High St. No. 115 in Lexington, Kentucky) will expire at the end of July. We are moving up East. A new address will be available in early August.
June 10, 2011
Jacques Camatte
Besides, if there are cracks in the base, that is, inside the material community, they will all the more easily be able to question and reject the representation of capital. The break with capital can neither be only passive-determined, nor totally voluntary. That is why it is still necessary to deepen the mode of being [...]
May 23, 2011
A Tick is a Tick
Lice are one thing. And fleas, mosquitoes, gnats, horseflies, midges, that's all the same thing. But ticks are another thing. A tick is something else, it has its own lore. It is true that there are worms that are also another thing but they are not the same as ticks, they disappear inside, and remain [...]
May 21, 2011
Review
John Cunningham reviewed Letters #4 at MetaMute. Communism and nihilism make for a particularly disjunctive synthesis given that the former has been linked to a redemptive teleology of history and the latter to a belief in nothing. This collapse of transcendent meaning in the face of scientific and philosophical enlightenment led to philosophical responses such [...]
May 2, 2011
בנפל אויביך אל–תשמח ובבשלו אל–יגל לבך
בנפל אויביך אל–תשמח ובבשלו אל–יגל לבך
May 1, 2011
Ascents
זה–שמי לעלם וזה זכרי לדר דר How good and how pleasant it is that brothers dwell together. It is like fine oil on the head running down onto the beard, the beard of Aaron, that comes down over the collar of his robe, like the dew of Hermon that falls upon the mountains of Zion. [...]
April 1, 2011
David Foster Wallace
KARRIER My Dad was always wrong. It was great. He worked on Wall Street. He was Wall Street. He analyzed the market. Always wrongly. He was always wrong for a big firm that kept him high in a corner office with drawn shades and a bare bulb. He was the worst. He was the worst, [...]
