remembrance days 1

postcolonial…? what!
did i miss something?
have they gone?
- bobbi sykes
in the houses of history, ed. green and troup (manchester university press, 1999), 278.

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061109

a couple of weeks ago i was returning home after an anti-bush protest (gwb is on a speaking tour, and made it to edmonton – i have things to say about speechifying like that in general, and about activism in alberta, and about energy, but these will be another post sometime): i’d got to the [...]

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271009

i gave a presentation on edith wyschogrod’s saints and postmodernism: revisioning moral philosophy (chicago UP, 1990) recently. the epigraph to the first chapter reads:
there is a thought that has haunted me for a long time… it is to portray a wholly good man. nothing is more difficult…especially in our time.
- feodor dostoevsky in a letter [...]

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glaenzen

karyn ball, “wanted, dead or distracted: on ressentiment in history, philosphy [sic], and everyday life”, cultural critique 52 (autumn 2002), 249:
in his consideration of temporal experience in augustine’s confessions, paul ricoeur reads book 11 as a lament over man’s distance from god. the eternity of the judeo-christian god is portrayed as a transcendent substance, an [...]

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100909

ramadan dreams: haasibu anfusakum qabla an tuhaasibu
and again, and

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october skies

it’s difficult for me to outline how bruce cockburn has affected my politics and my aesthetics, the imagery i use in articulation and the idiolect i inhabit. i’ve been listening to his music for so long that he’s had a formative influence. years ago i discovered my parents’ old cassette recordings of inner city front [...]

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04.26.08

my abilities to live are undoing themselves as i get older. as metonym: the final days of last semester saw me living in front of a computer screen, reading as i typed, producing 80-some pages over those three weeks and forgetting to eat, sleep. i told myself the next few months would be different. i [...]

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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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matthew 5:45

the sense that the respite Godallah gives us all draws to a close inducing a determination laced with quiet. “i have to”. there are no other paths. i cannot let the they (they-for and they-in, me) cover. jonah had no choice but to return, and return he did. it is not in itself a matter [...]

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work

and today, my hair caught fire.
karma works quicker than you think.

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