Status Updates From The Complete Works

1 Henry VI

the historical timeline collapses events of 1429, 1440, 1453, and others into a single juxtaposition in order to stage an epistemic rupture through Talbot’s obsolescence and Joan’s techne—wherein we read sorcery as cipher for engineering. The old order is not ready for the event, embodied in artillery, that renders its virtues unintelligible—the world is changed and none of them is ready for it.

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3 Henry VI

Develops the thesis of the prior text, wherein sovereign silence allows for a agambenian anomie, a hobbesian wasteland--sharply noted when Henry attempts to claim a right in the discussion, only to be ignored.

Slutten av Titus Andronicus

I am reading the Hamlet only at this time.

bro er så ond 😭😭

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2 Henry VI

the silence that was imposed on Silvia and Bianca in the two prior plays in order to constitute order and prevent tragedy is here assumed by the sovereign as the marker of holiness--instead of speaking as holder of the office of executive, his 'bookish rule' offers prayers that can only defer judgment--an unholy dereliction as witches, false miracles, ghosts, and ochlocratic violence proliferate.