“…they’re going to abandon me, there will be the silence, for a moment, for a good few moments, or it will be mine, the lasting one, that didn’t last, that still lasts, it will be I, you must go on, I can’t go on, you must go on, I’ll go on, you must say words, [...]
Intervention at the book presentation of Hans van Houwelingen: Undone Stroom Den Haag, The Hague NL December 11, 2011 ὄυτε λόγος ἐχυρὸς, ὄυτε ὅρκος φοβερός – Thucidydes[1] Ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon. For me it is an honor to speak here, today, as we are closing Hans van Houwelingen’s exhibition Until It [...]
The following presentation was held by Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei and A. Staley Groves at the presentation of the publication ‘The Destructive Character’ by Dick Raaijmakers, accompanied by Groves’s poetry ‘Étui’ at Onomatopee on June 10, 2011.
The adjacent possible is a kind of shadow future, hovering on the edges of the present state of things, a map of all the ways in which the present can reinvent itself. Yet it is not an infinite space, or a totally open playing field. The number of potential first-order reactions is vast, but it [...]
Through Googles new Ngram Viewer, words can be searched in a database of over 5.2 million books from the last six hundred words. As an example, we see that even though Heidegger scholarship has exploded, Derrida continues to rule the roost.