A brief summary of “The Constitution of Rhetoric,” a section of Carlo Michelstaedter’s dissertation Persuasion and Rhetoric| APHELIS
☛ “Defiling immundity: on Being Properly Improper” by Philippe Theophanidis, Keep It Dirty, vol. a., “Filth,” December 2016. Original URL; cached version, alternative link. The essay reproduced here first appeared on Keep It Dirty, an imprint of Punctum Book. The website stopped its operations sometime in 2017, and it is now defunct. Hence the purpose […] The post Defiling Immundity: On Being Properly Improper appeared first on APHELIS.| APHELIS
V. MAYAKOVSKY Not so, comrade! I hate the Winter Palace and the museums no less than you do. But destruction is as old as construction, and as traditional. Destroying something you no longer care for, you yawn and are as bored as when you watched its construction. History’s fang is more venomous than you think, […] The post “A breach with traditions is a tradition” Alexander Blok appeared first on APHELIS.| APHELIS
“Communismus der Geister”: Annotated bibliography for the fragment attributed to German poet Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin| APHELIS
A short introduction to the expression “global civil war” as it was used from the outset of the First World War to the aftermath of 9/11.| APHELIS
Context is provided for a quotation attributed to Hölderlin, translated by Maurice Blanchot, and printed in Comité No. 1, October 1968| APHELIS