Prof @Concordia / Author of Rationalist Empiricism; The Limits of Fabrication; Baudelaire's Shadow / Translator of The Flowers of Evil @VersoBooks
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Front and back covers for Baudelaire's Shadow, forthcoming from Fordham University Press on March 3
Two events at Emory next week: a public lecture on “Race, Reference, and Colonial Modernity in Hölderlin’s Andenken” and a workshop on translating Baudelaire
Richard Seymour is a one stop shopping center for meteorological reports, technology forecasts, and self-congratulatory demonstrations of refined disenchantment: what we should REALLY be worried about is the stock market.
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Grateful for this thoughtful review by Greg Ellermann of my book Reading Hegel in the latest issue of Genre @UChicagoPress read.dukeupress.edu/genre/ar…
Granville Redmond, California Poppy Field, circa 1926. At LACMA's new David Geffen Galleries, designed by Peter Zumthor.
My sprawling essay on Elemental History in Peter Zumthor’s architecture and Hölderlin’s poetry has just been published in boundary2 online. Thanks to Arne de Boever and Frédéric Neyrat for their editorial generosity.
boundary2.org/2026/05/nathan…
Prospective table of contents for my ongoing book project.
*possibly unfamiliar names are Cheyney Thompson, Joan Mitchell, Jacques Dupin
x complete draft; x- partial draft; - still to write.
Bruckner: Symphony No.7 "Adagio" / New Mastering (Century's recording: W... youtu.be/jnK_BhuCcdc?si=xNWp… via @YouTube
My study of The Flowers of Evil — Baudelaire's Shadow: On Poetic Determination — is out today from Fordham University Press.
fordhampress.com/baudelaire-…
Video of my lecture yesterday at Université de Montréal (in which I discuss romantic irony and the romantic fragment while moving in and out of the video blur) youtu.be/Y3Zcu7sJyjo?si=JqL9… via @YouTube
Page for Baudelaire's Shadow now up at Fordham University Press: tinyurl.com/3ttzeh8k
“The most philosophically serious engagement with Les Fleurs du Mal that we have...An unusually stirring and eloquent tour de force.” - Jonathan Culler, Cornell University
Upcoming events with NYC artist Cheyney Thompson at Concordia University, Montreal, Sept. 23 & 24. Details here:
centreforexpandedpoetics.com…
Had an interesting exchange today with Nick Nesbitt on his recent book, Reading Capital's Materialist Dialectic. Here's the recording of the live stream:
youtube.com/live/It2upD0wodg
I translated Baudelaire’s Recueillement for Lapham’s Quarterly:
laphamsquarterly.org/roundta…
“The elements of language explicate one another. They speak for that which still remains to be said in that which is said; they speak as philological additions to one another. Language is archiphilology.”
- Werner Hamacher
