The End43 years later, J. J. Murphy’s claim that “The virtual neglect of Chris MacLaine’s [sic] films over the past 25 years constitutes one of…Feb 11, 2022Feb 11, 2022
A White DarknessIn 1946, Maya Deren received the first Guggenheim filmmaking fellowship; her application proposed a study of Haitian voodoo ritual. She…Feb 7, 2022Feb 7, 2022
1/29When I’m distressed, I read Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind. One should not do something “as if it were preparing for something else” — here my…Jan 30, 2022Jan 30, 2022
All That is Solid Melts Into WindIn the summer of 1963 Alfred Boeke, the Vice President of Oceanic Properties — a subsidiary of the Hawaiian developer Castle and Cook —…Jan 18, 2022Jan 18, 2022
1/12There comes a point at which grief is no longer about reckoning with the incoherent fact in its difference from ‘the way things are’, and…Jan 13, 2022Jan 13, 2022
Necessary FictionsWhat is to be done when there is nothing to be done? As little as possible, for a while, perhaps. It is a matter of gathering yourself…Jan 6, 2022Jan 6, 2022
Eros & Logos“For a hundred years, (literary) madness has been thought to consist in Rimbaud’s “Je est un autre”: madness is an experience of…Jan 4, 20221Jan 4, 20221
I. 1/3/22I am dwelling, today, upon Barthes’ identification [1] of the unreal with the intractable, and conversely of the real with that which one…Jan 4, 2022Jan 4, 2022
