More specifically concerning: christina sharpe
point d’appui
27 October 2021, around 6.16.
At Saint Sulpice. (Obvious limits to such an undertaking: even when my goal is just to observe, I don’t see what takes place a few meters from me: I don’t notice, for example, that cars are parking) —Georges Perec (An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris, trans. Marc Lowenthal, p. 15) Aisha Sabatini Sloan’s […]
regarding
9 November 2023, around 13.18.
Ms. Ludwig XV 7 (83.MR.177), fol. 64v, ca. 1405. Under the conditions of a rising standard of living, non-conformity with the system itself appears to be socially useless, and the more so when it entails tangible economic and political disadvantages and threatens the smooth operation of the whole. —Herbert Marcuse (One-Dimensional Man, p. 4) Regard […]
Adversaria (8)
30 November 2023, around 4.16.
‘And yet it’s autumn now, as clear as water and as bright as a mirror, and I should be happy’ —Eileen Chang (‘On the Second Edition of Romances’, Written on Water, trans. Andrew F. Jones, p. 218) ‘Every reader is cumbered by an excess of books, and every book by an excess of readers—each overwhelmed […]
ordinary crying
2 December 2023, around 14.55.
This chain might want to be a metaphor, but I am too lazy to link any ideas to the image. The difference of natural talents in different men, is, in reality, much less than we are aware of; and the very different genius which appears to distinguish men of different professions, when grown up to […]