Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again; Though lovers be lost love shall not; And death shall have no dominion. —Dylan Thomas, born #OTD in 1914 poets.org/poem/and-death…

Maurizio Ferraris, Hysteresis: The External World - ed. and trans. Sarah de Sanctis, Edinburgh University Press, February 2024 edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-hysteresi… The preface by Graham Harman and Chapter One are open access under the Resources tab at book website.

Western philosophy has tried to use pure reason to know reality. But Heidegger showed that this entire philos tradition was doomed, due to its mistaken assumption that being a feature of reality is to be available to rational thought. | By Robert Pippin iai.tv/articles/hegel…

Reiner Schürmann, Selected Writings and Lecture Notes - Diaphenes, 2019- I hadn't realised this project was ongoing... five volumes already and two more in December. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/seri…

André Leroi-Gourhan on Technology: A Selection of Writings from the 1930s to the 1960s, ed. Nathan Schlanger, trans. Nils F. Schott - Hau Books, February 2025 haubooks.org/leroi-gourhan_…

On this day, 46 years ago, Michael Cimino's 'The Deer Hunter' (1978) premiered in Los Angeles, California.

Out this March, with an introduction by Happy Hour at Hippel's 💀

Deleuze on the Left and leftists

Roberto Bolaño interview 1999

British filmmaker Ken McMullen's improvisational, non-linear film, 'Ghost Dance' [1983] concerns itself with various "ghosts" [e. g., Kafka, Marx, Freud] and the issue of memory [the past] and how it functions in the present. Jacques Derrida plays "himself" in the film and

Jacques Derrida on being

J. G. Ballard on surrealism

Deleuze A - Z, Episode C, Culture

David Thomas [Pere Ubu] R. I. P.

Jakob Grosse-Ophoff, 'Self-love', 2023

Pierre Bourdieu on the limits of intellectuals

When Roberto Baggio did this to Lazio 🔥

Mood.

"The only pleasure the melancholic permits himself, and it is a powerful one, is allegory." — Walter Benjamin