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Rustle in the Bush
“Those who criticize without creating, those who are content to defend the vanished concept without being able to give it the forces it needs to return to life, are the plague of philosophy.”
Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guatarri-‘What is Philosophy, 1991
Home-brewed joyful affects.
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Baldwin and Bataille
There are good and powerful reasons that Baldwin’s terrifying penetration of racial violence in “Going to Meet the Man” has been largely read in light of Jesse’s psychoanalytic development, masculine formation, or as an examination of racial terror’s spectacle. Early psychoanalytic interpretations fixate around castration anxiety and erotic obsession of Jesse, to readings of necropolitics…
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‘The Gift’ and Unlimited Intimacy
Tim Dean I’ll start with my feelings on The Gift. It was utterly ‘alright’. The only problem Is in the documentary’s aesthetics, really. I thought that the editing, camera work, and visual choices didn’t square with the emotional weight of the topic. I mean, its a devastating watch and even some silence would have helped because…
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Go Tell it on the Mountain vs Giovanni’s Room
Baldwin’s Development Both of these novels speak to me as essentially aimed towards the possibility of life. And life admits of only one direction, forward though it can be thought only under the pretenses of the past. These biases, these psychological determinants stand in contrast to, really the entire world before the birth of Baldwin.…
Rustle in the Bush 