Monthly Archives: March 2024

Flower songs

A cycle of ten flower songs, “mixing memory and desire,” to celebrate the arrival of April. Bizet, Wagner, Parios, Chabrier, Puccini, Strauss, Britten, PiL, Schubert, Aznavour https://poetrypiano.wordpress.com/?s=flower+songs

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A non-politics of melancholia lite

What if Socrates was not taught about love by Diotima but about melancholia by Aspasia?  What if, following his death, philosophy turned its back on melancholic politics and replaced it with eros?  George Edmondson and Klaus Mladek open their new … Continue reading

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“Tragic Self-Determination in Post-Colonial Drama” at the University of Michigan

Μy talk about the antinomy of autonomy, the tragic in political theory, post-colonial determination in the 1960s, and post-revolutionary tragedy. Monday, March 11, at noon, Comparative Literature library, 2021C Tisch Hall

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