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The Recluse
and to be entitled the “Recluse”; as having for its principal subject the sensations and opinions of a poet living in retirement. —Wordsworth, Preface to The Excursion Diego Velázquez, Saints Anthony...
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Eyes Wide Shut: Anscombe/Action/Art
It was my sense that a recent series of essays by Walter Benn Michaels that addressed the work of Elizabeth Anscombe, especially her seminal and challenging 1957 volume Intention, in light of artistic...
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The Trouble with Disparity
If the COVID-19 pandemic and the killing of George Floyd are supposed to have made visible inequalities that no one had seen, the death rates both from the virus and at the hands of the police have...
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Checking Your Privilege? Perspectives on the Politics of White Identity
You can watch the full event here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqTfM56s4aA. Introduction Katherine Rader The essays included in this symposium were written by the panelists for the event “Checking...
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What One Does: Rainer/Aristotle/Welling
Figure 1. James Welling, Choreograph 0141, 2015. L.A. Dance Project, Inkjet print, 106.7 x 160 cm. 1. In 1968, Yvonne Rainer wrote an essay criticizing “much of the western dancing we are familiar...
View ArticleHugh Kenner and the Origin of the Work of Art
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy says that the earliest discussion of Borges’s Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote and its implications for understanding the ontology of works of art was in a...
View ArticleProduced and Abandoned: Action and Intention in Derrida
1. According to Derrida, “To write is to produce a mark that will constitute a sort of machine which is productive in turn, and which my future disappearance will not, in principle, hinder in its...
View ArticleInterchange I: On intention, context, and meaning, with examples
This begins with Henry Staten (HS) expanding on an example he brought in when commenting on a draft of Walter Benn Michaels’s (WM) piece. HS had written: Consider: I say something ironically, but say...
View ArticleInterchange II: Closing Remarks
A) Walter Benn Michaels (WM) offers a closing response. B) An exchange between Henry Staten (HS), Joshua Kates (JK), and Walter Benn Michaels that picks up an earlier part of their discussion. C)...
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“Did you ever have a mother?”: Call It Sleep’s Communism
“Did you ever have a mother?”: Call It Sleep’s Communism Articles, Issue #47 Walter Benn Michaels September 20, 2024 “Did you ever have a mother? Did you?” is not a question that gets asked in any...
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