Pensee Post-Industrial Requiem {I} 16 Mar 201116 Mar 2011 Not requiem for a blog, fortunately. After some nine days of nebulous nonsense, finally bolted from morasses multiple, the author has returned to seek the fulcrum, and -- now to…
Cultural Politics… Bertold Brecht in North Korea 7 Mar 20117 Mar 2011 Well, more like Brecht for North Korea. North Koreans may need Bibles, but no less, they need the acidic and informed spite, the angular mockery of state power which is…
Chinese nationalism… December 7 in Chongqing 7 Dec 20097 Dec 2009 This morning I gave one of those lectures I enjoy delivering because it wakes people up and reconnects me with my Sino-Japanese research: a survey of aerial bombing of civilian…
Cello… Inner Dialogue 8 Sep 2009 Summer, the era of the self, is over, and the academic year begins. Narcissus goes into hiding in a cave by the border, lurking, perhaps to infiltrate one’s apartment in…
French… 巴黎巴黎 30 May 200931 May 2009 巴黎，永远与隆重欢迎无睡之胜利者 今天它躺着如个破碎闪光预言者 云海哲学家查阅姹紫嫣红的油画词典 （是什么知识女神创造 les feutillons disparu？） 我让他们批评我的痴心妄想，但口不开 -- mon solitude, glorieuse et taillé du vert le plus profond, reviens encore -- 所以我恩恩鼓励自己，精心精心精心做您的任务，avec soigneusement preparée les course, gagne la vie…
German… Macht vom Kunst 11 May 200911 May 2009 Macht vom Kunst [après/after Nietzsche] Die Feind b'reit sich für Angriff vor, schon reich von Zeit und Land. Dagegen sanfte Vöglein schweben, hauen von gelber Hand. Furchtlos und klein, dies…
Adam Cathcart 