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“A tragic understanding admits that revolution is subject to counter-revolution, that liberation is risking oppression.”
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Recent Posts
- What makes us comrades?
- Η Φωτεινή Τσαλίκογλου κι εγώ ακούμε τη λύπη στον Σούμπερτ
- “Παίζουμε ένα ποίημα;”/11: Αλέκος Λούντζης: “Εξάγγελος” (η τραγική γνώση)
- Listening ahead
- Spiral motion in time and space
- On not Reading Music (3)
- On not Reading Music (2)
- “Παίζουμε ένα ποίημα;”/10: Μαρουσώ Αθανασίου: “Ασύχαστο” (η μνήμη)
- Exiting Greece
- Daniel Herwitz: “Politics and the Art of Rumination in William Kentridge”
- “Παίζουμε ένα ποίημα;”/9: Θάνος Γώγος: Ντακάρ VI (μετά την ήττα)
- On not Reading Music (1)
- Interpretive and attentive reading as modern spiritual exercises in self-rule
- On Jewish melancholy
- “Η αριστερή αποποίηση της εξουσίας και της νομοτέλειας”
- “Παίζουμε ένα ποίημα;”/8: Δημήτρης Λεοντζάκος: Aria #22 (μουσική και ποίηση)
- “Μία συνάντηση με τον Βασίλη Λαμπρόπουλο: Θέατρο, Τραγωδία, Επανάσταση” (audio)
- “Παίζουμε ένα ποίημα;”/7: Παυλίνα Μάρβιν: «Πρόλαβες να διαβάσεις τον Ρίλκε;» (o νέος ποιητής)
- Brecht’s Tragic Measures (3)
- Brecht’s Tragic Measures (2)
- Brecht’s Tragic Measures (1)
- “Παίζουμε ένα ποίημα;”/6: Χαρίλαος Νικολαΐδης: “ελευθερία του συνέρχεσθαι” (η στάση/συνάθροιση)
- H εικονομαχική χειραγώγηση της πεζογραφίας
- H φιλία ως μελέτη βίου
- The presence of the friend
- “Παίζουμε ένα ποίημα;”/5: Βάγια Κάλφα: «Δεν είμαι χρήσιμη στο έθνος μου» (έθνος και φύλο)
- Listening to music as a skill
- Mahler’s melancholic marches
- “Παίζουμε ένα ποίημα;”/4: Μάριος Χατζηπροκοπίου: “Των γυναικών του Κωνσταντή” (πουστιά και ποίηση)
- “The Agonism between Democracy and Sovereignty as the Form of the Political”
- The decline of intellectual debates
- Werther’s lyric performance of a bardic self
- Heroic civic friendship
- “Παίζουμε ένα ποίημα;”/3: Ζ. Δ. Αϊναλής: «Ένα ποίημα για τη νύχτα» (o σύντροφος ποιητής)
- Kant’s ethics of autonomous obedience
- On not talking to a close friend (4)
- The total moment of the perfect melody
- “Παίζουμε ένα ποίημα;”/2: Κατερίνα Ζησάκη: “Αγώνας” (η αριστερή μελαγχολία)
- Regimes of rule
- Listening to a mazurka by Chopin
- “Η πολιτική της φόρμας, του φύλου, της φυγής και της φλόγας”: Πρωτοεμφανιζόμενοι ποιητές (2011-2017)
- “Παίζουμε ένα ποίημα;”/1: Ένο Αγκόλλι: “Θερμοπύλες” (η ποιητική παράδοση)
- Four years of blogging on a collaborative friendship
- Daniel Herwitz: “Avant-Garde Legacies: Identity Politics in a Consumerist World”
- The 1916 Event “Cabaret Voltaire” in Zürich (Travels in revolutionary Mitteleuropa, from the Rhine to the Danube/10-end)
- The 1912 Friends as “Hermits” in Vienna (Travels in revolutionary Mitteleuropa, from the Rhine to the Danube/9)
- The 1910 Rebels’ “Hell” in Paris (Travels in revolutionary Mitteleuropa, from the Rhine to the Danube/8)
- The 1849 Dresden Uprising (Travels in revolutionary Mitteleuropa, from the Rhine to the Danube/7)
- The 1848 Prague Uprising (Travels in revolutionary Mitteleuropa, from the Rhine to the Danube/6)
- The 1848 “Hecker Uprising” in Konstanz (Travels in revolutionary Mitteleuropa, from the Rhine to the Danube/5)
- The 1567 “Dutch Revolt” in Brussels (Travels in revolutionary Mitteleuropa, from the Rhine to the Danube/4)
- The 1415 “Western Schism” in Konstanz (Travels in revolutionary Mitteleuropa, from the Rhine to the Danube/3)
- The 1819 Dresden Conspiracy (Travels in revolutionary Mitteleuropa, from the Rhine to the Danube/2)
- A disturbance of memory in Weimar (Travels in revolutionary Mitteleuropa, from the Rhine to the Danube/1)
- An elegy for the Jewish cultivation of Hellenic self
- Autumn songs
- Networks of civic friendship
- “Modernist Theory & Theater between the Tragic & the Melancholic”
- The listening self
- “Greek Democracy in Crisis or Stasis”
- Recent popular songs referencing classical music
- Are there any Greeks in this publication? (3)
- Goethe’s Mignon sings to Wilhelm Meister
- “What is trans-national about Greek American culture?”
- “Η ποίηση ως διαρκές γίγνεσθαι”
- “Η ελληνική ποιητική γενιά του 2000”: Mιά συνέντευξή μου στη ‘Βαβυλωνία’
- The tragedy of revolution is that liberation conspires with terror.
- Schubert as a Byronic hero
- The pianist-thinker
- “Neoliberal Austerity and Left Melancholy”
- Χρόνος, Χάυντν, Χάιντεγγερ
- Pirandello’s “Enrico IV,” a tragedy of refusal
- Listening for the zeibekiko dance
- Learning Greek
- Ubu Roi in the German concert hall, the Parisian arcades, and the White House
- The messianic critique of tragedy*
- The regular piano collaborator
- “Anarchism and Hellenism in Richard Wagner’s Revolutionary Cultural Politics (1848-52)”
- Theory in verse
- The spell of caprice No. 24
- Anti-Hellenism (2)
- Anti-Hellenism (1)
- Greek women poets on Greek myth
- Is serialism a classicism?
- Launching my research website “The Tragedy of Revolution”
- Three years of blogging about listening to music and poetry
- Friends promise each other to a shared future
- Contemplating and plotting
- Beyond resistance and resilience
- Modes of reading
- Κριτική για την νουβέλα του Μισέλ Φάις ‘Lady Cortisol’
- “Η ποιητική ως πολιτική θεωρία: Ήττα, απόγνωση και μελαγχολία στη μετεμφυλιακή αριστερή ποίηση”
- The agonistic politics of eris, stasis, polemos
- Collaborative listening
- The Friend and his Beloved
- Renouncing politics
- Are there any Greeks in this publication? (2)
- Are there any Greeks in this publication? (1)
- “Η αριστερή μελαγχολία στην ελληνική ποιητική γενιά του 2000”
- “Πώς μιλάμε για την καινούργια ελληνική ποίηση”
- Πώς *δεν* μιλάμε για την καινούργια ελληνική ποίηση
- The Greek poetry of austerity on German radio
- Friends making Music together (2)
- The Hebraic covenant of the civil religion and the Hellenic Arcadia of the civil culture
- Varieties of Hellenism
- How critical theory arrived in Greek writing through poetry
- A dialectic of contraries, rather than opposites, in four 2017 Greek poetry cycles
- “Η κρίση της ποίησης και η μελαγχολία της αριστεράς”
- Α melancholic ethic
- Melancholy as a mood of critique
- After the defeat of the Revolution
- Friends in opera
- On Not Talking to a Fellow Leftist Friend
- Τhe friend as internal condition of thought
- The care of the self as care of the “other self”
- The alienated philosopher: Adorno on Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis
- Deleuze’s concept of assemblage in Greek Studies
- Franz Liszt’s services to artistic sacralization
- The emergence of Listening as a practice in the early 19th century
- The concerto as ‘Bildungsroman’
- My auto-bibliographical trajectory [in Greek]
- The friend as teacher
- Composers on the operatic stage
- The imperial destiny of the Trojans
- A transatlantic communication between Greek and American poets
- “World Literature” as cultural institution and disciplinary regime
- The demonic control of Greek mothers over their sons
- On Jewish Modernity
- German Nazi views of the Greeks
- Left Melancholy and its poetry after the American elections
- Setting Cavafy to music
- The Melancholy of Resistance as Left Melancholy
- The “Oresteia” in film
- The “Oresteia” in music
- The centrality of music in German aesthetics
- Hellenism and eroticism in the French mélodie
- New Greek poetry after its crisis
- Letters to a young pianist
- The absence of the Greek novel from world literature
- Civic friendship
- Before and after Minimalism – a playlist
- Why does Greek criticism have a problem with translations of new Greek poetry?
- The erotic gaze of the piano player
- The Greek Generation of the 2000s and the politics of new European writing
- “Deus absconditus” and the emergence of modern radicalism (2)
- “Deus absconditus” and the emergence of modern radicalism (1)
- Leaving Plato’s cave for his studio (3)
- Leaving Plato’s cave for his studio (2)
- Leaving Plato’s cave for his studio (1)
- On killing a close friend
