Archive for the 'Literary Criticism' Category
Watching an American detective show with Korean subtitles, set in the Korea town of Las Vegas, I became witness to a most remarkable sleight of hand: the name 박 (Pak), anglicized into “Park,” became “바크” (pak’ŭ). A slight difference shatters the propriety of the proper name: a most remarkable property theft. Having passed through [...]
Filed under: Literary Criticism, Literary Theory, Philosophy, cultural criticism, politics | Leave a Comment
Tags: criticism, hangul, korea, korean, proper name, transliteration
The oddest effect of the internet has been to restore a conjuring power to the name. Thus the name “Martin Hägglund” has brought many comers, and perhaps a few revenants as well, to Wozu. Why is this? Certainly, more would have been interested in Paris Hilton, Tyra Banks, Sarah Palin (if not what [...]
Filed under: Literary Criticism, Literary Theory, Philosophy, religion | Leave a Comment
Tags: atheism, celebrity, derrida, Fame, hölderlin, martin hägglund, religion
Fame and Intelligence
What happens when the famous become critics, or worse — the critics become famous? One should ask a more pointed question first: what does a critic have to do to become famous, and why would she want to do it? The pros are easy to calculate. The deepest dreams of a critic are to become [...]
Filed under: Literary Criticism | Leave a Comment
Tags: Critical Theory, culture, Fame, Intelligenstia, Zizek
the modesty of thinking
Perhaps there is a modesty that consists in doing what others are doing. But the moment one believes one is doing anything at all by doing in this way, modesty becomes arrogance.
A truer modesty consists in becoming and doing nothing by doing nothing that has been done; nothing that could yet be recognized as anything.
The modesty of thinking always [...]
Filed under: Literary Criticism | Leave a Comment
Fragments
A thinker must be a partisan not only of certain thoughts, but of thought.
Heidegger warned us against forgetting the original meaning of words. But let us not forget that the truest sense of a word often belongs not to the past but the future.
The poet invokes the muses; the philosopher, reason. Who then does the [...]
Filed under: Literary Criticism | Leave a Comment
