Jan Mieszkowski
My new book, Crises of the Sentence, is now available from @UChicagoPress. It includes:
a) Hegel on how to write a sentence
b) Freud on how not to write a sentence
c) Flaubert on never finishing a sentence
d) Nietzsche on never starting one
I’d buy one if I still read books.
Idealism: I am what I think
Materialism: I think what I am
Psychoanalysis: You aren’t what you think
Existentialism: You can only think what you aren’t, weren’t, and never will be
And in precisely that order.
The Mathematics of Desire
Hegel: 0 x 0 = 1
Lacan: 1 + 1 = -1
Deleuze: 2 ÷ 0 = 3
Twitter: 280 - Self - Other = 279
And in precisely that order.
English Lit: You’re meeting your archenemy on the bridge
French Lit: You’re dueling with your archenemy on the bridge
Russian Lit: You’re realizing that your archenemy on the bridge is you
American Lit: You’re archenemy is a comic book character.
Our children may not be learning biology, but they are learning an ideological critique of science.
You know, if you have children.
Idealism: So much for the facts!
Realism: So much for the fictions!
Materialism: So much for your thoughts!
Existentialism: So much for your feelings!
More or less as it were.