The problem with what is referred to as the valorization of war in Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida is the close identification it encourages between wound and body. It compromises and diminishes redemption proper, prolonging and delaying relinquishment of the privation.Whereas, among the conditions for self-invention or spontaneity of thought is the enabling or inserting of added time […]

What sometimes gets written off as hysteria is the misperception of conditions as ‘totalitarian’ or headed in that direction, to be remedied by partition or dissolution. Often these convictions are marked by a confusion of physical perception with mathematical conceptions such as infinity or a divisible continuum, when these need not correspond. The resultant ‘truth’ […]