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Simon Taylor

Simon Taylor

https://orcid.org/0009-0008-6687-4647

diverge to infinity

After supper I took up my physics again, but at last I gave up. Ill-starred work indeed! … Recently I have felt very sad without any reason, so I went to a film. … Returning home I read a book on physics. I don’t understand it very well. … Why isn’t

Golden Pool, 28 from the Lives of the Saints series

Oedipus returns “to hide in death a while;” or, recurrent displacement: The Character of a Dark Precursor for a Theatre of Philosophy

Near the beginning of “Theatrum Philosophicum,” Michel Foucault’s essay reviewing Gilles Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition and The Logic of Sense (this is where and when – the esssay appeared in 1970 – Foucault famously remarked that one day the century will be known as Deleuzian), there is a committal: Plato

lapidary belatedness & Thoth imago

Would I had phrases that are not known, utterances that are strange, in new language that has not been used, free from repetition, not an utterance which has grown stale, which men of old have spoken. An Egyptian scribe fixed those words in stone at the very dawn of recorded

The Red Jacket

poetry of physics as of painting, diagramme notwithstanding; the reversability of time or as of the three paradoxes as in Deleuze and the redundancy of the possible being: everything is alive

James Gleick calls the flight from Europe to the United States in the mid-1930s, ‘the greatest intellectual migration in history.’ The aptness of his description struck me and I wanted to record it here. [James Gleick, Genius: Richard Feynman and Modern Physics, Abacus, London, 2006, p. 167] – Ad Reinhardt, from

Tell it to the Birds: Tiwakawaka