An unwritten life, one lived only to the extent it is imposed like a death sentence, lived out to its inevitable conclusion, this is insufficient to ward off disaster. There is a deficiency about it, an incapability. It can only be lived as a life of privation. The same life, lived as though one is […]

Time gratuitously given without demands for reciprocation seems to be the lesson dispensed in Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice. It is what buys time, what bends it in your favor. The consequences of the withholding or absence of this gesture can be observed in Marx’s “Imperialism in India.” There a maxim that Marx posited as truth […]

The concealment of a functioning subjectivity and the continued project of suppressing this side is what allows one to be confirmed in his illegitimate sovereignty, a condition that obtains given the fact of radical temporal discontinuity which implies the possibility and no longer the permissibility of redemption, and therefore and moreover that any such redemption […]