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The liar says “in truth” “in reality”; men who cannot establish the sum of their concerns say “in sum”; he who does not conclude says “in conclusion”; the superficial says “at bottom”; the empiricist says “in substance” [ ] To say that one says instead of saying, and to imagine for oneself in the words [ ] The post Carlo Michelstaedter The Constitution of Rhetoric appeared first on APHELIS .
☛ “Defiling immundity: on Being Properly Improper” by Philippe Theophanidis, Keep It Dirty, vol. a., “Filth,” December 2016. Original URL; cached version; alternative link. The essay reproduced here first appeared on Keep It Dirty, an imprint of Punctum Book. The website stopped its operations sometime in 2017, and it is now defunct. Hence the purpose [ ] The post Defiling Immundity: On Being…
V. MAYAKOVSKY Not so, comrade! I hate the Winter Palace and the museums no less than you do. But destruction is as old as construction, and as traditional. Destroying something you no longer care for, you yawn and are as bored as when you watched its construction. History’s fang is more venomous than you think, [ ] The post “A breach with traditions is a tradition” Alexander Blok appeared first on…
☛ A preliminary version of this paper was first presented in 2016 to the “The Working Group on War and Culture,” during the 14th meeting of the Cultural Studies Association, Villanova University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A Spanish translation was produced by Gerardo Muñoz for the cultural magazine Ficción de la razón: “La Guerra Civil Global: Una [ ] The post “Global Civil War” A Primer…
• • • Manche helfen Dem Himmel. Diese siehet Der Dichter. Gut ist es, an andern sich Zu halten. Denn keiner trägt das Leben allein. Some help The heavens. These the poet Sees. It is good to keep To others. For no one bears life alone.1 • • • The following document lists relevant sources, [ ] The post Communismus der Geister: Sources, Translations, Discussions appeared first on APHELIS .