Bataille’s “unemployed negativity” as an opening with no issue
If action (“doing”) is –as Hegel says– negativity, the question arises as to whether the negativity of one who has “nothing more to do” disappear or remains in a state of “unemployed negativity.” Personally, I can only decide in one way, being myself precisely this “unemployed negativity” (I would not be able to define myself […]
“The Gaze of Interruption”: on ‘Goodbye to Language’ by Jean-Luc Godard
A 3200-word essay I wrote on Jean-Luc Godard’s 3-D film Adieu au langage (Goodbye to Language) has been published at Berfrois: see “The Gaze of Interruption”. I discovered Berfrois a couple of years ago through a review of Michel Foucault’s Leçons sur la volonté de savoir written by Stuart Elden. Berfrois is a well-established “literary-intellectual […]
Article published: “The Greek crisis and the problem of community”
My essay “We have gone bankrupt. The Greek crisis and the problem of community” has been published in issue 17 of Chronos magazine (September 2014). I learned about Chronos magazine a few months ago when they published the transcript of a public lecture Giorgio Agamben delivered in Athens, on November 16, 2013 (I wrote about […]
Michael Haneke, love and finitude
☛ Amour (Love) by Michael Haneke, 2012, @ 1h 37mins 42s. In the sequence illustrated by the stills shown above, Georges (Jean-Louis Trintignant) answers his daughter Eva (Isabelle Huppert). She wants to know what is going to happen next. Her mother Anne (Emmanuelle Riva) –Georges’s wife– suffered a serious stroke, and is returning from the […]
