Simon Taylor

is the status of consciousness purely epiphenomenal from the causal standpoint or does it display a causality of its own? It would be interesting to confront Deleuze with these naive questions: is the level of Sense-Event just a sterile effect, a theatre of shadows? Does it somehow affect the

“This [lack of recognition in the New Zealand arts curriculum of pakeha arts as localised and acculturated] is regrettable but hardly surprising and it is actually quite serious. The lack of a fundamental pakeha groundedness in pakeha identity, history and culture is a far greater problem for the shaping of

Each writer creates his precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future. – Jorge Luis Borges

for Badiou as for Heidegger, poetry is the experience/articulation of the limits of the potency of language, of the limits of what we can force through and with language. – Slavoj Zizek (OwB, p. 107)

Part way through Economy of the Unlost, Anne Carson imagines a Greek flaneur rusticating in the fifth century B.C. who stops to read an epitaph carved in stone, a “talking stone.” Since lapidary inscriptions of the period generally left no spaces between words, the passerby, both for the practical