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Literary & critical theory 📚 aesthetics 🌊 ecology 🌋 • Wrote a thesis on Thomas Pynchon • Not a Hegelian • Blog: thewastedworld.com
“One can conceive of writing infinitely on past texts, or at least I can. [...] There would be an activity of proliferating commentary, branching out, recurrent, which would be the true writing activity of our time.” (Barthes, Grain of the Voice, p. 148).
"I believe that the state of consciousness which would exemplify the Absolute Idea is love, since in love we have a state of harmony in which neither the subject nor the object can be considered as determinant" (McTaggart, 'Commentary on Hegel's Logic').
My latest on the Preface to Hegel's Phenomenology -- turning from the opening critique of method to the outlines of a new system, and the necessity of a phenomenological exposition thereof. tinyurl.com/y4wp3b8e
Reflections on four books recently read, by Marion Milner, Doris Lessing, Robert Burton, and Antonia Pont — on methods of organising oneself. tinyurl.com/yuyddcx5
The latest on Hegel's Preface to the Phenomenology -- this time turning to his polemic against Schelling and the debate over metaphysical first principles. Whew! tinyurl.com/y8znk3sy
My attempt at an accessible introduction to the thought of Erich Auerbach and his history of literary technique -- focused on the question of how the everyday became fit for serious represention. tinyurl.com/y7vwn755
Notes on the rational ambitions of literary criticism, its systematic tendencies, and its presumption of an intelligible order in the literary object. tinyurl.com/39r8vh7d
Nicolas Poussin, A Dance to the Music of Time (c. 1634-36).
A commentary on Hegel’s concept of history as totality and the task of philosophy in revolutionising historical consciousness. tinyurl.com/2s4e5j7z
A new commentary on Hegel’s criticism of intuition as the sovereign faculty of Romantic philosophy. tinyurl.com/3tusbzat
Cosimo Rosselli, "Madonna and Child with Three Angels" (c. 1478-1480).
Paul Klee, "A Guardian Angel Serves a Small Breakfast" (1920).
The first in a series of commentaries on the Preface to Hegel’s Phenomenology, beginning with the problem of philosophy’s proper genre, style, and structure. tinyurl.com/yeura63v
Some thoughts on some books 📚 open.substack.com/pub/thewaste...
“As something presupposed, reason and faith are abstract, empty representations; for them to become concrete they must be explicated and viewed as unfamiliar” (Hegel, History of Philosophy, II.132).
On Hegel's mixed metaphors, the mismatch of word and image, and making the best of abstraction. tinyurl.com/3s4y2s48
A new essay on Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, the conflict of reason and imagination, and Burton's attempts to escape the universal folly that his work diagnoses and performs. tinyurl.com/4hsw4aux
A new essay on Gillian Rose’s final poetic works, unhappy consciousness, and the Pearl poet’s representations of the absolute. substack.com/home/post/p-...
In case you missed it -- a new essay on Gillian Rose, Arthurian myth, and the philosophy of shame: open.substack.com/pub/thewaste...
Starting this Monday! -- My lecture series with the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy: a semester-length reading of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit from cover to cover!
Excited to announce my upcoming lecture series with the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy: a semester-length reading of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit from cover to cover! mscp.org.au/courses/even...
Just received from @umbrellaent.bsky.social — the 4K restoration of Wake in Fright, complete with the novel by Kenneth Cook, and a booklet of essays on the film (including a critical comparison of the book and film by yours truly)!
Very pleased to announce that I will be presenting a lecture series with the MSCP on Hegel's speculative thought -- including introductory forays into the Phenomenology, Logic, and Lectures on Fine Art. Starting on June 20th, in-person and online! mscp.org.au/courses/wint...