Tag Archives: Michel Foucault

For the Sake of Darkling Playfulness: Michael Brodsky’s “Invidicum” Part Three

Posted on November 30, 2023 by Mark Kerstetter

Packet Five: The aesthetics/ethics dyad I want now to produce a two-headed packet; it really needs two heads, trust me (by the way, this is not the first time Invidicum has recalled for me Brodsky’s novel Dyad, but I digress). … Continue reading →

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Maurice Blanchot’s ‘The Experience of Lautréamont’

Posted on August 9, 2023 by Mark Kerstetter

My slumbers—if I slumber—are not sleep, But a continuance of enduring thought…. The Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life. —Lord Byron, Manfred Maurice Blanchot’s book Lautréamont and Sade (“Sade’s Reason” followed by the much longer essay, “The Experience … Continue reading →

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Agamben on Twilight

Posted on November 22, 2022 by Mark Kerstetter

Twilight As the weight of day bears down and night’s promise advances, memory and loss in equal shares emerge in a standoff. Will and fancy, knowledge and flight become unlikely workmates and vision pushes focus against the last flakes of silver backing … Continue reading →

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