sThe 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…7 min read·Feb 11, 2022----
sA White DarknessIn 1946, Maya Deren received the first Guggenheim filmmaking fellowship; her application proposed a study of Haitian voodoo ritual. She…13 min read·Feb 7, 2022----
s1/29When 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…2 min read·Jan 30, 2022----
sAll 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 —…12 min read·Jan 18, 2022----
s1/12There comes a point at which grief is no longer about reckoning with the incoherent fact in its difference from ‘the way things are’, and…3 min read·Jan 13, 2022----
sNecessary 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…2 min read·Jan 6, 2022----
sEros & Logos“For a hundred years, (literary) madness has been thought to consist in Rimbaud’s “Je est un autre”: madness is an experience of…5 min read·Jan 4, 2022--1--1
sI. 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…2 min read·Jan 4, 2022----