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About Me

I am something of a latter-day Marcel Proust; my sentences coil and twist around themselves like serpents, always on the lookout for lacunae in their arguments, which are themselves buried underneath a multitude of sesquipedalian and hobson-jobson words; as well as the ever-familiar terror of sub-clauses and parentheses (an example of this, expressed in a performative manner, being here) which make comprehension of my meaning a truly Sisyphysian task - however, a close perusal of my writing reveals a cornucopia of delights, with musings on writers as diverse as Martin Heidegger, Carl Schmitt, Willard Van Orman Quine and Aristocles (the name of the philosopher who is generally known by his nom de plume, Plato - in Greek, meaning 'he of the broad shoulders'); with a view to developing a Neo-Hegelian (although at this stage my thought is at its foetal, Schellingian stage; it has grown out of its embryonic Fichtean and consequently its spermatological Kantian stages) philosophy which takes full account results from contemporary biology; this is in turn will develop to build a revolutionary political movement which will, at one fell swoop, bring down the iniquities of the global capitalist system, and, consequently, the tyranny of the full stop.

My Interests

Insomnia, madeleine cakes, my mother, your mother, flaneurie, growing a moustache

I'd like to meet:

James Joyce, with whom I will have a conversation regarding chocolates.

Music:

Johann Sebastian Bach, Phillip Glass, Frederick Chopin, Dmitri Shostakovich, Arnold Schoenberg, Bela Bartok, Ludwig van Beethoven, John Taverner, Arvo Part, Albert Ayler, Cecil Taylor, Eric Dolphy, McCoy Tyner, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Keith Jarrett, Hundreds Tens and Units, Django Reinhardt

Movies:

I don't go to watch magic lanterns as much as I should; I am partial to a bit of David Lynch or Guy Maddin, however.

Television:

NONE

Books:

A la Recherche du Temps Perdu - Marcel Proust; Negative Dialectics - Theodor Adorno; Minima Moralia - Theador Adorno; The Arcades Project - Walter Benjamin; The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction - Walter Benjamin; Being and Time - Martin Heidegger; The Phenomenology of Spirit - GWF Hegel; The Encyclopedia of Logic - GWF Hegel; Faust - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; The Parallax View - Slavoj Zizek

My Blog

Phillip Glass

I have been listening to Phillip Glass for the last few days to the exclusion of all else, bar the presence of the ubiquitous Kate Bush. His prolonged meditations on short, unvarying se...
Posted by Marcel Proust on Mon, 04 Dec 2006 03:23:00 PST

Everything is Stupid

Exams loom, in 16 days' time. Today, I have been reading about the difficulty in assuming that causality can be linked to statistical relations, in favour of the alternative view that causal relations...
Posted by Marcel Proust on Wed, 31 May 2006 11:07:00 PST

Rape

Well, people keep adding me, I have no idea who they are but there we go. I suppose I had better do a blog, then, to pass the time? I was reading about the debate concerning whether all evolution coul...
Posted by Marcel Proust on Wed, 03 May 2006 01:50:00 PST

A day in the life of a bookseller

Ah, sitting in the bijou bazaar of bibliomania where I eke a living - all quiet, listening to Tom Waits, reading Noam Chomsky and Saki. The sugar low of the afternoon does not disturb, here I can hudd...
Posted by Marcel Proust on Wed, 16 Nov 2005 08:11:00 PST

A day in the life of a geezer

One wonders what one should write about in these things. I spent the morning reading Leo Strauss in the bath, whilst my landlord showed the next bedsit to prospective clients - perhaps my new neighbou...
Posted by Marcel Proust on Mon, 14 Nov 2005 07:52:00 PST