Mullion was a new building in Yurakucho that housed two department stores and five movie theatres. With so much within its walls, it couldn’t help becoming one of the centres of the bustling district in which it was located, but because there was nothing really unhealthy about it – nothing

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