In recollections of her friendship with Kathy Acker, Avital Ronell writes, “Derrida locates in surviving the origin and essence of friendship. Not empirically or chronologically clocked but fundamental, the structure of surviving means that one of you will be left behind, responsible and responsive to the intemporal, irretrievably mute other.”
Nick Curley Blessed is he with too much to read, but I get a megaton bomb dropped on my head and much catching up to do. On Monday I received from a truly good egg a shipment of David Foster Wallaceness covering most of what I didn’t have on hand at the cribs: paperbacks of Brief Interviews with Hideous Men and his essay collection A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, and the hardcover version of his famed Kenyon […]