HYPNOS (x HYPSOS). Gavin Keeney

I wait for
My dreams
To catch up,
Or perhaps
I do not
Remember them;
I remember
Kissing ‘You’,
And you turning
Into this person,
This person,
That person,
Then ‘You’ …

Incantation. Gavin Keeney

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LETTER TO NO ONE / THOUGHT ITSELF. Gavin Keeney

“The city streets are wet again with rain / But I’m walking just the same / Skies turn to the usual grey / When you turn to face the day / And love don’t show up in the pavement cracks / All my watercolours fade to black / I’m going nowhere and I’m ten steps back / All my dreams haven fallen flat” –Annie Lennox, “Pavement Cracks” (2003)

“Every day I write the list / Of reasons why I still believe they do exist / (A thousand beautiful things) / And even though it’s hard to see / The glass is full and not half empty / (A thousand beautiful things) / So … light me up like the sun / To cool down with your rain / I never want to close my eyes again / Never close my eyes / Never close my eyes” –Annie Lennox, “A Thousand Beautiful Things” (2003)

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THE YOUNG BRAHMANIANS. Gavin Keeney

Sometime, somehow, along the way, and always-already en route somewhere else, they had all become Brahmanians. It was unclear when they had taken this nominally sharp left turn, but it was clear that it originated within the short windowless Time when the enigmatic gesture of the Real-Real took root; a small seed planted in the soul, then, unfurling its delicate radical and turning, in turn, toward the moist earth of critical and poetical reflection, the soil of that collective state of things reflected in the specular, Pascalian wager regarding discours naturel, a nothing much spinning down through the centuries as a mysterious and incomplete Carte de Tendre, consulted here, and consulted there, but most often set aside again for reasons having more to do with the love of abstraction than anything resembling simple facts on the ground.

KANT NIETZSCHE UNDO LACAN. Gavin Keeney

This is the complete version of Gavin’s review of Kevin Hart, The Dark Gaze: Maurice Blanchot and the Sacred (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004). To download the whole review, press here.