calypso

beginning, always beginning:
the desire to finish once and for all, or to be done with definitively, is a legacy of the western logos, promising finite transcendence but also a new, infinitizing start; …terminization is as much a myth as origin, offering the narcissistic comfort that goes along with closure…
- avital ronell, epigraph to “introduction: declinations [...]

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untitled-3

daniel sent me an email, a few weeks ago, with subject-line “warning: this email may contain sentimentality.”
because, ok, really? toronto? i (and noor) are floored. people are incredible, and incredibly generous. (this true for edmonton too, probably, but you don’t have perspective for what’s behind/in front of you. chickens can only see sideways.)
because, really. phuppo, [...]

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finds

toronto, then.
(this particular parenthesis begins here. this and here – the empty indexicals forming hard at the surface, perhaps a reason that writing has become instead and if that a register of days, the empty indexicals perhaps all i will allow myself to claim. instead of: telling stories; or trying jokes; or plotting figures; or [...]

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humans

the perfect synecdoche of modern sacrificial logic, biopolitics, regulated aversion, liberal social micromanagement, the violent benevolence intrinsic to and necessary for the state to exist at all, and so much more:
the israeli interior minister, meir sheetrit, aspires to create an arab city in northern galilee. “it will be a modern city, where young couples can [...]

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after the linguistic turn

there is, i wrote, theory that is dry and self-absorbed and nothing. but there is also theory that makes me laugh aloud late at night, these moments of recognition.
what of it if, in the name of islam, there is at work a “hypercritical rationality”, one that does not turn away from what may at least resemble [...]

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citation

at jum’ah zacharia asked the jama’ah what la ilaha illa’Llah meant.
if he’d asked me, i thought, i would answer there is no transcendent or transcendental signifier or signified except (, or, instead, standing-in for: no-thing except) the one unique ineffable and sublime Of absolute regard.

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