"What if we understand the death drive not only as manifested within the individual psyche, or in terms of group psychology, but as something that takes hold of institutions and guides their aims, sometimes with furtive tenacity?"--Judith Butler, review of Jacques … [Read more...]
Alternatives to Hope
A close friend of mine has mentioned more than once that she reads the final lines of my new book Veiled Spill: A Sequence (“April again/and once more the trees//veiling themselves/in each other”) as representing hope. Of course I get what she means, and I … [Read more...]