„Alle Menschen müssen sterben“
Sitting in a café near an older French couple on holiday – the sort that Haneke’s Amour would have us believe is the height of humanity – they are kind to each other in the distance they leave, the respect…
Jacob Bard-Rosenberg
Against Pocket Money Loans: Critique of an Artwork
I have just seen a photograph of a new artwork that has appeared on Stroud Green Road in North London. A shop is decked out to look like a payday loans shop, but aimed at kids. There’s even a promotion…
Translation of a little poem: the woman and the lioness
Yesterday I made a little translation of a poem for my friend Jesse, because they like lions and queer things. It’s from a book called mit Füssen mit Flügeln [with feet with wings] by the Swiss writer Verena Stefan, published 1980.…
Dream Fragment now in Greek Translation
Someone at αμφιφλοξ blog has written a Greek translation of the Dream Fragment I wrote a few months ago (reposted here beneath the translation). Enjoy. Συναντηθήκαμε ξανά στον δρόμο που είχαμε βρεθεί την τελευταία φορά. Κανείς από τους δυο μας δεν μπορούσε να…
The academic journal as form: a polemic
The universities have truly become the spirit’s burial mounds, filled with the stink of corruption and immovable gloom. – Ernst Bloch I have learnt two things at university: in the entire history of university exams no candidate has ever written…
A Letter on Primary Narcissism
The text below is a letter/email I sent a couple of months ago, in response to a really wonderful article by Dr Daniel Greenberg that was published in the International Journal of Psycho-Analysis back in 1990: “Instinct and Primary Narcissism…
New Essay up on Mute about Dries Verhoeven’s ‘Wanna Play? Love in the Times of Grindr’
I have a new report/essay up on Mute Magazine’s website. It discusses Dries Verhoeven’s artwork ‘Wanna Play: Love in the times of Grindr’, which caused enormous rage in the Berlin queer community in the last week, and how the theatre…
An Adorno letter to Sohn-Rethel
Here’s a little translation of a letter from Adorno to Sohn-Rethel (related to the letter from Horkheimer to Adorno that I published here a few months back.) Again, I am putting up the German as well so if anyone has…
Against Emma Watson’s Speech at the UN
I see some famous actress has made a speech launching the UN’s HeForShe campaign. The speech was aimed at men telling them that feminism is definitely not about man-hating while quoting Edmund Burke and offering such pearls of wisdom as…
The anatomy of Proverbs, and a small note on Freud
What are those things in the centre of their mouths, that ringed silence, that crushed clock, screams of dead and flying things: as if all of their verbs, those private plazas, had coagulated, into nouns, and the nouns themselves something…