The essay is a treatment of ontological, temporal and structural problems that concern tower building in the instance of two novels: William Golding’s The Spire and Thomas Bernhard’s Correction. In the guidance of the notion of ”instauration” borrowed from Étienne Souriau, and in further dialogue with a diverse array of theoretical…[Read more]

Departing from a note of Valéry on the convertibility between mental functions and experience, the essay tries an approach to the question of metaphysical experience in the light of a discourse of organs/organology, by mediating temporalities of learning or long term acquisition and absolute transience.

The paper explores a modest number of antinomies and intrigues informing a possible conceptual understanding of falling. It thematizes in a freewheeling fashion the implications of falling from physiological, phenomenological, cultural, temporal and artistic perspectives, in the guidance of Henri Michaux, the writer.

The paper offers a survey of contemporary attempts to restore human thought and language to a wider realm of nonpropositional thought; along the way it highlights pitfalls regarding anthropomorphism as well as dialectical subsumption, and attempts to show alternatives ranging from poetry to nonstandard logical forms like analogy. In four sections…[Read more]