Before the Law
Do you believe that pressed flowers between, The yellow pages of these scripted books, They speak to me with child-like,…
Can History be Reversed?
The issue of colonial violence was illustrated in two ways in our seminar on postcolonial authorship. First, the repression of…
Unanswered Questions
Barron in “Kant, Copyright and Communicative Freedom” was impressively lucid and structured in setting out Kant’s general philosophy and vision…
The fiction I Find in Biagoli’s Fichte
With respect, there are two things about Biagoli’s interpretation and critique that I find highly unconvincing. First, Fichte’s inalienability. Biagoli…
Redeeming You
What is an author? Barthes’ response to this would perhaps be appropriately worded thus: “nothing”. Indeed, Barthes emphatically suggests that…
Kafka’s Chiasmus
By the time of Kafka’s day, we had begun to see author as creator and genius. The form in which…