Disequilibria has its many chords. This blog series might lead to fruitful projects toward a second work, perhaps also within the scope of missingness. One way I’m thinking toward a follow-up work exploring missingness is to focus in a more sustained way on place and space as theoretical concepts, somewhat Read more…
Near the end of their two-year period of close friendship, Herman Melville passed on to Nathaniel Hawthorne a story he’d picked up in New England from a New Bedford lawyer. In the letter he wrote to Hawthorne, he argued it would make a fine piece of fiction. The story was Read more…
After a violent conflict with his father, Martin Guerre, sixteenth-century Gascon peasant of Basque origin, leaves behind his young wife, Bertrande, and infant son. Eight years later, Martin Guerre returns. The man claiming to be Martin knows everyone in the village. He possesses memories of intimate details. This Martin is Read more…