Author Archives: Zegreus Moole

Introduction In the opening chapter of his book “Maps of Meaning” (1998), the psychologist Jordan Peterson refers to Francis Fukuyama’s ideas about the end of history. This minor reference situates the emergence of Peterson’s theories within the triumphant days of … Continue reading →

The idea of liberal modernity is overdue for a restaging. But this will have to proceed in a rather tenuous modality, which cannot be just not a straightforward description of actuality, but rather an articulation of potentials which are nascent … Continue reading →

(some conceptual parataxis, not arguments, just possible statements, and disjunctions between them) There is a certain irony in late modern poetry which awaits interpretation. It’s diminutive impassivity could be mistaken at first glance for witticism or cuteness, while on further … Continue reading →

(For Avital Ronell) The etymology of the word “career” suggests the sort of uncontrolled movement that would naturally culminate in a crash, such as when a vehicle “careers” into a collision, and yet there is a pervasive normative assumption that … Continue reading →

“If we want things to stay as they are, then things will have to change.”  -Prince Don Fabrizio（The Leopard, 1958, by Giuseppe di Lampedusa） There are two obvious reasons why the ending of history is be due for reconsideration. For one … Continue reading →

The late-Ming novels of the “gods and ghosts” genre can provide a paradigm for culture. These are not the literati novels like Dream of the Red Chamber, which deal with sensitive amourous situations.  They are tales about heroes who die … Continue reading →

What we’ve called “theory” is an activity which hasn’t reached maturity yet, and so it still remains undefined. It’s a youthful pastime which continues to imitate the patterns of established practices. It still continues to mimic the practices in academic … Continue reading →

The conceptual doesn’t ground itself. It has to be grounded in alterity, which is its foundation in the categorial. This other is the concept’s own essential groundlessness, which it cannot tolerate insofar as it remains a concept. The categorial is … Continue reading →

Lacan in Flight “I do not want to say that the text wrote itself” – Alenka Zupančič If we read Alenka Zupančič in close conjunction with poststructuralism, we find some interesting patterns that emerge in the consistency between these doctrines. The … Continue reading →