The Ohrwurm

I'm in talks about talks with Mark Greif, an editor at n+1, about possible publication of the beginning of Your Name Here. I report this...

Hail to the Chief

A reader in Iraq writes: I've actually been thinking a lot about art in general and performance art in particular. I want to get 3,300 ...

Refrigerator art

OK, here I go. I'm going to make this whole website right now on this dry-erase board. http://noonebelongsheremorethanyou.com/

Find one find all

I forget things. My rent is 411 euros a month, but the cost of living goes up when there are too many things in my head. I am thinking about...

Hypnotism of octopus

Surprising as it sounds, octopuses can be hypnotized. The Dutch zoologist, J. ten Cate, proved this with the common octopus. It was not an e...

Adorno on Beckett and the Deformed Subject

I got an e-mail from Mr Gridneff, don;t read, with a link to this video on YouTube and so came to this video of Adorno on Beckett and the De...

Evolutionary Biology of Plants

The cactus has its bristling armament of spines that can radiate heat and defend its water-packed stem from herbivory (p 5) Consider that t...

Verbs of vague application 2

Wright concludes the chapter as follows: §8: 18. Since the differentiation between a verb of specific application and one of vague applicati...

Verbs of vague application

I was going through papers looking for a story I wrote a long time ago. I came across a photocopy of Chapter 8 of Wright's Arabic Gramm...