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2025-06-19

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2024-12-05

Contemporary Techniques of Poetry: A Political Analogy

2024-12-02

Nihilistic Times: Thinking With Max Weber

2024-05-20

On the Most Ancient Wisdom of the Italians: Unearthed from the Origins of the Latin Language: Including the Disputation with the Giornale De’ Letterati d’Italia

2024-04-25

The Demotic Notes —Added feedback from Sean and Julian
- Next Step: Stevens Section.

2024-04-17

Coleridge, Biographia Literaria, ch. 17.
- Frye, Northrop. “The Educated Imagination” and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1933-1963. Edited by Germaine Warkentin, University of Toronto press, 2006.
Apr 18th, 2024
- Wallace Stevens Concordance
  - Maker
    - “Extracts from Addresses to the Academy of Fine Ideas”
    - “Headache”
    - “Mud Master”
    - “The Idea of Order at Key West”
    - “The Man with the Blue Guitar”
  - Artificer
    - “Description without Place” “The Idea of Order at Key West”
  - Vernacular
    - “Delightful Evening” “From the Journal of Crispin”
  - Vulgate
    - “An Ordinary Evening in New Haven” “Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction”
  - Idiom
23:37 quick capture: Romantic Discourse and Political Modernity: Wordsworth, the Intellectual and Cultural Critique (1993) - “Idiom of the Hero” - “Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction” “The Auroras of Autumn” - Dialect - “Page from a Tale” —

2024-04-16

Github Personal Access Key: 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
Added to Demotic draft
Made notes in current notebook 23:37 quick capture: Terry Eagleton: Hegel gets real https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n04/terry-eagleton/seeds-of-what-ought-to-be
Apr 17th, 2024
- DONE Get Frye, T. S. Eliot
- DONE Get Frye, The Well-Tempered Critic
- Sum up the Viconian Connection in the Demotic Chapter

2024-04-08

2024-03-29

11:21 quick capture: Butler, incidentally, also thinks that this I/we issue is important: quoting (now, confusingly enough, with page-reference to the older edition, p. 99, which corresponds to pp. 107-8 in the new one) from the “Introduction to the Age of Rousseau” (as the older edition had it[[3]]( Embarrassing Ourselves | Los Angeles Review of Books

2024-02-19

Last night, added some to Chapter 7
The connection between Stevens and Heidegger is Ground; Stevens’s interest in Heidegger seems to begin from Heidegger’s reading of Hölderlin; what is the status of Heidegger’s Hölderlin in recent discussions of Heidegger and Stevens together?
- TODO Note Ian Tan’s Wallace Stevens and Martin Heidegger: Poetry as Appropriative Proximity
- TODO Note Monstrous History: Heidegger Reading Hölderlin
- TODO Note Heidegger and Hölderlin: The Over-Usage of “Poets in an Impoverished Time”
- Todo Note Who Is Heidegger’s Hölderlin?

2024-02-07

21:49 Quick Capture: https://open.substack.com/pub/slavoj/p/will-she-ever-die?r=24k52&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

2024-01-17

The New Science
- @vicoNewScience2020
Phenomenology of Spirit @hegel2018 Reading Plan:
- Jan 17th, 2024
  - DONE Read @hegel2018, pgs. 1–27 :LOGBOOK: CLOCK: [2023-12-21 Thu 09:37:25]–[2023-12-21 Thu 09:37:28] => 00:00:03 CLOCK: [2023-12-21 Thu 09:37:28]–[2023-12-21 Thu 13:29:20] => 03:51:52 :END:
- Jan 18th, 2024
  - DONE Read @hegel2018, pgs. 28–55
- Jan 19th, 2024
  - TODO Read @hegel2018, pgs. 56-83
- Jan 22nd, 2024
  - TODO Read @hegel2018, pgs. 84–111
- Jan 23rd, 2024
  - TODO Read @hegel2018, pgs. 112–139
- Jan 24th, 2024
  - TODO Read @hegel2018, pgs. 140–167
- Jan 25th, 2024
  - TODO Read @hegel2018, pgs. 168–195
- Jan 26th, 2024
  - TODO Read @hegel2018, pgs. 196–223
- Jan 29th, 2024
  - TODO Read @hegel2018, pgs. 224–251
- Jan 30th, 2024
  - TODO Read @hegel2018, pgs. 252–279
- Jan 31st, 2024
  - TODO Read @hegel2018, pgs. 280–307
- Feb 1st, 2024
  - TODO Read @hegel2018, pgs. 308–335
- Feb 2nd, 2024
  - TODO Read @hegel2018, pgs. 336–363
- Feb 5th, 2024
  - TODO Read @hegel2018, pgs. 364–391
- Feb 6th, 2024
  - TODO Read @hegel2018, pgs. 392–419
- Feb 7th, 2024
  - TODO Read @hegel2018, pgs. 419–446
- Feb 8th, 2024
  - Todo Read @hegel2018, Pgs. 447–467

2024-01-15

Viconian Modernism
- Coleridge as fons et origo of English-language reception; does this carry through to I.A. Richards’ book on C.?
  - It does not.
  - Date relative to Adams’ book on Vico?
    - Richards: 1922; Adams: 1935
  - In other words, how did Stevens get interested? Is Santayana a factor?
    - DONE Check the Santayana marginalia and notebooks for Vico
    - No References

2024-01-14

Viconian Modernism
- Coleridge as fons et origo of English-language reception; does this carry through to I.A. Richards’ book on C.?
  - Date relative to Adams’ book on Vico?
  - In other words, how did Stevens get interested? Is Santayana a factor?
    - Done Check the Santayana Marginalia and Notebooks for Vico

2024-01-12

Viconian Modernism
- The Letters of Samuel Beckett

2024-01-11

Viconian Modernism
- Viconian Modernism Plan

2024-01-09

Viconian Modernism
- Foster, R. F. W.B. Yeats: A Life. Vol. 2. 2 Vols. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

2023-12-08

Reading:
DONE Read the first section of A Vision, “A Packet for Ezra Pound.” :LOGBOOK: CLOCK: [2023-12-07 Thu 17:17:52]–[2023-12-07 Thu 17:17:53] => 00:00:01 CLOCK: [2023-12-07 Thu 17:17:53]–[2023-12-07 Thu 17:17:55] => 00:00:02 CLOCK: [2023-12-07 Thu 17:17:56]–[2023-12-07 Thu 17:17:57] => 00:00:01 CLOCK: [2023-12-07 Thu 17:17:59]–[2023-12-07 Thu 17:18:12] => 00:00:13 CLOCK: [2023-12-07 Thu 17:18:13]–[2023-12-07 Thu 17:18:14] => 00:00:01 CLOCK: [2023-12-07 Thu 17:18:16]–[2023-12-19 Tue 13:43:20] => 284:25:04 :END: —

2023-12-07

Checked references to Vico in:
- Ellmann, Richard. James Joyce. New and rev. Ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.
- Joyce, James. Selected Letters of James Joyce. Edited by Richard Ellmann. Repr. London: Faber and Faber, 1992.
- Fordham, Finn. Lots of Fun at “Finnegans Wake”: Unravelling Universals. Oxford: Oxford university press, 2013.
  - Requested:
    - Treip, Andrew. “‘As Per Periodicity’: Vico, Freud and the Serial Awakening of Book III Chapter 4.” European Joyce Studies 4 (1994): 21–40.
    - Van Mierlo, Wim. “‘Finnegans Wake’ and the Question of Histry!?” European Joyce Studies 9 (1999): 43–64.
Borrowed:
- Cormack, Alistair. Yeats and Joyce: Cyclical History and the Reprobate Tradition. Aldershot, Hants: Ashgate, 2008. id:: 6571aa6a-0b4d-44b9-aadb-747d96125001
Dec 8th, 2023
- Read the First Section of a Vision, “A Packet for Ezra Pound.”

2023-12-06

Viconian Modernism
- Brennan, Timothy. @brennanBorrowedLight2014. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014.
- Library search [subject exactly: Vico, Giambattista] by date-newest:
  - Adler, Daniel R. “Socrates the Degenerate: Irony as Trope of Decadence.” CLCWeb : Comparative Literature and Culture 23, no. 4 (2021).
  - Amorim, Sertorio de, and Silva Neto. “Between Chance and Destiny. Vico and the Concept of Divine Providence/ Entre Acaso E Destino. Vico E O Conceito De Providencia Divina.” Acta scientiarum. Human and social sciences 40, no. 1 (2018).
  - Arcangelis, Alessandro de. “Towards a New Philosophy of History. European Vichianism and Neapolitan Hegelianism (1804-48).” Journal of Modern Italian Studies 24, no. 2 (2019): 226–43.
  - Brennan, Timothy. “ Vico and Modern Scientism .” Italian Culture 35, no. 2 (2017): 129–42.
  - Cain, Marty. “Frank Stanford’s Rural Avant-Garde: Infrastructure, Mediation, and Poetic Community.” Journal of Modern Literature 45, no. 4 (2022): 148–68.
  - Canaris, Daniel. “Shame in Ethical Discourse: Vichian Echoes in Bernard Williams.” MLN 132, no. 1 (2017): 76–98.
  - Caporali, Riccardo. “The ‘Blacksmith’ and the ‘Queen’. Freedom and Divine Providence in Giambattista Vico.” Acta scientiarum. Human and social sciences 40, no. 1 (2018).
  - Casadei, Delia. “Vico Signifying Nothing.” Representations (Berkeley, Calif.) 154, no. 1 (2021): 129–42.
  - Colilli, Julian. “Jonathan Israel’s Enlightenment: The Case of Giambattista Vico.” Italica (New York, N.Y.) 93, no. 3 (2016): 469–93.
  - Dainotto, Roberto M. “Special Issue on Giambattista Vico.” Italian Culture 35, no. 2 (2017): 73-.
  - Devare, Aparna. “Exploring Past Myths through Giambattista Vico and Jyotiba Phule.” Contexto Internacional 38, no. 3 (2016): 763–81.
  - Devetak, Richard, and Ryan Walter. “The Critical Theorist’s Labour: Empirical or Philosophical Historiography for International Relations?” Globalizations 13, no. 5 (2016): 520–31.
  - Ding, Ersu. “Poetic Logic and Sensus Communis.” Semiotica 2018, no. 225 (2018): 447–55.
  - Dmitriev, Alexander. “Mikhail Lifshits and the Soviet Image of Giambattista Vico.” Studies in East European Thought 68, no. 4 (2016): 271–82.
  - Dougherty, Jude P. “The New Science by Giambattista Vico (Review).” The Review of Metaphysics 73, no. 3 (2020): 634–36.
  - Drake, Richard. “The Changing Landscape of Intellectual History.” South Central Review 39, no. 1 (2022): 39–51.
  - Ferri, Sabrina. “Literature in the University: Giambattista Vico’s Ideal Type.” Italian Culture 35, no. 2 (2017): 112–28.
  - Fontana, Benedetto. “Philosophy and Rhetoric in Vico’s Thought.” Italian Culture 35, no. 2 (2017): 82–100.
  - Fuchs, Dieter. “James Joyce and the Philosophers at ‘Finnegans Wake’ by Donald Phillip Verene (Review).” James Joyce Quarterly 56, no. 1 (2019): 185–89.
  - Girdwood, Megan. “‘Danced through Its Seven Phases’: Samuel Beckett, Symbolism, and Stage Choreographies.” Journal of Modern Literature 42, no. 4 (2019): 74–92.
  - Grieco, Giuseppe. “A Legal Theory for the Nation State. Pasquale Stanislao Mancini, Hegelianism and Piedmontese Liberalism After 1848.” Journal of Modern Italian Studies 24, no. 2 (2019): 266–92.
  - Gualtieri, Gaetano Antonio. “The Socio-Political View about the Primitive World in Giambattista Vico’s Thought.” Araucaria (Triana) 21, no. 41 (2019): 97–116.
  - Heritier, Paolo. “The Last Emblem. The Frontispiece to Vico’s New Science in the Light of Sugimoto’s Theaters as the Other Side of Aristotelian Language.” Law and Literature 33, no. 2 (2021): 197–227.
  - Lim, Donghyun. “Vico and the Disgregation of Historia Salutis.” History of European Ideas 44, no. 1 (2018): 1–13.
  - Marshall, David L. “Giambattista Vico, Aphorism, and Aphoristic Machines.” Italianist 37, no. 3 (2017): 324–47.
  - Newman, Jane O., and Ron Sadan. “The World’s Literatures: Erich Auerbach’s Early Essays on Giambattista Vico.” Comparative Literature 74, no. 4 (2022): 381–403.
  - Piperno, Martina. “Giambattista Vico’s ‘Constructive’ Language and Its Post-Revolutionary Readers.” Comparative Critical Studies 15, no. 2 (2018): 261–78.
  - Pomara, Francesca M. “A Critical Approach to Homeric Exemplarity in Vico and Machiavelli.” Italica (New York, N.Y.) 98, no. 1 (2021): 30-.
  - Scalercio, Mauro. “The Italian Job: Giambattista Vico at the Origin of Edward Said’s Humanism.” Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry 3, no. 1 (2016): 82–96.
  - Selenu, Stefano. “Borrowed Light, or ‘Post-’ in Light of the Past.” Symposium (Syracuse) 71, no. 3 (2017): 166-.
  - Sériot, Patrick, and Matthew Carson Allen. “If Vico Had Read Engels He Would Be Called Nikolai Marr.” Interventions (London, England) 24, no. 5 (2022): 716–41.
  - Shuvalov, V.I. “Interpretive Possibilities of Giambattista Viko’s Historical Process Model.” Известия Высших Учебных Заведений. Поволжский Регион: Гуманитарные Науки, no. 1 (2022).
  - Wild, Helga C. “The Singularity Has Come and Gone.” Angelaki : Journal of Theoretical Humanities 25, no. 3 (2020): 83–96.
  - Wright, Jarrell D. “Transcending Law and Literature: Literature as Law in Plato, Vico, and Shelley.” Law and Literature 29, no. 2 (2017): 291–310.
- Library search [subject exactly: Giambattista, 1668–1744. Principi di una scienza nuova] by best match:
  - Bayer, Thora Ilin, and Donald Phillip Verene. Giambattista Vico: Keys to the “New Science.” Giambattista Vico. 1st ed. Cornell University Press, 2008.
  - Hösle, Vittorio, and Francis R. Hittinger. Vico’s New Science of the Intersubjective World. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2016.
  - Piperno, Martina. Rebuilding Post-Revolutionary Italy: Leopardi and Vico’s “New Science.” Rebuilding Post-Revolutionary Italy : Leopardi and Vico’s “New Science.” Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2018:04. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2018.
  - Pompa, Leon. Vico: A Study of the “New Science.” Vico : A Study of the “New Science.” 2nd ed. Cambridge [England] ; Cambridge University Press, 1990.
  - Vaughan, Frederick. The Political Philosophy of Giambattista Vico: An Introduction to La Scienza Nuova. The Hague: Nijhoff, 1972.
  - Verene, Donald Phillip. Knowledge of Things Human and Divine: Vico’s New Science and “Finnegans Wake.” Knowledge of Things Human and Divine. 1st ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003.
  - Verene, Donald Phillip. “Vico and Joyce.” Albany: State University of New York Press, 1987.
  - Verene, Donald Phillip. Vico’s New Science: A Philosophical Commentary. Vico’s New Science : A Philosophical Commentary. Ithaca, [New York] ; Cornell University Press, 2015.
  - Vico, Giambattista, Thora Ilin Bayer, and Donald Phillip Verene. Giambattista Vico: Keys to the “New Science”: Translations, Commentaries, and Essays. 1st edition. Cornell Paperbacks. Cornell University Press, 2011.
  - Vico, Giambattista, Giambattista Vico, Thora Ilin Bayer, and Donald Phillip Verene. Giambattista Vico Keys to the New Science: Translations, Commentaries, and Essays. Cornell Paperbacks. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2009.

2023-11-30

Viconian Modernism

2023-11-27

Reading Heidegger in Ruins: Between Philosophy and Ideology :LOGBOOK: CLOCK: [2023-11-27 Mon 09:50:13]–[2023-11-27 Mon 09:50:16] => 00:00:03 :END:

2023-11-25

@pinkard1994

2023-11-24

Have updated Logseq to sync across my devices now; remember to set up at work next week, Nov 25th, 2023.
@From Alienation to Forms of Life: The Critical Theory of Rahel Jaeggi

2023-04-26

Meaning is Use
Language Games
Forms of Life

2023-03-28

Two Papers: “Wittgenstein’s Khora” and “A Genealogy of the Ordinary”

2023-03-27

Herbert Marcuse, primary works:
Theodor Adorno Primary Works:

2023-02-06

Playing around with some Vico ideas
- Potential title: “Vico’s Modernism and Modernism’s Vico”
  - Most scholarship in this area having focussed on the uses modernist writers made of Vico; not Vico as a theorist of modernity
Edited Joy’s Essay for Kubrick and Race

2023-01-31

Looked at @The Short-Timers in Special Collections; the Scene With the Hooker in the Film Really Is an Innovation of the Screenplay;

2023-01-30

Ashley Montagu Debate With Robert Ardrey—Frame for the Chapter.

2023-01-29

Jan 30th, 2023: Kubrick and Race draft in Dropbox, highlights in Zotero
Jan 31th, 2023: @The Short-Timers Take Notes Here

2023-01-27

Started the day finishing Dreger’s (meh) book Galileo’s Middle Finger. Pretty soft on some important questions. Pro-evo psych.
For Kubrick and Race: began reading @The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages
For Kubrick and Race Also Looked at @Nature, Human Nature, and Human Difference: Race in Early Modern Philosophy

2022-11-16

Reading Hegel, @hegel2018
Looking at Brandom, @A Spirit of Trust: A Reading of Hegel’s Phenomenology

2022-11-15

Reading @hegel2018

2022-09-07

Reading @sedgwickEpistemologyCloset2008 Epistemology of the Closet for #cultural_environments

2022-08-25

Reading @harawayStayingTroubleMaking2016 Staying With the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene for #cultural_environments

2022-08-23

Reading @latourLaboratoryLifeConstruction1986 Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts for #cultural_environments

2022-08-17

Reading @levi-straussStructuralAnthropology1963 Structural Anthropology for #cultural_environments
Reading @derridaWritingDifference2001 Writing and Difference for #cultural_environments

2022-06-24

Hegemony #permanent_note
Thinking About Broken Hegemonies Again: To What Extent Is This an Ontologised Version of Cultural Studies?

2022-06-21

For Transhuman Mishima, Looking at Nick Bostrom’s Paper / @A History of Transhumanist Thought

2022-06-18

Notes for an Unpublishable Postscript

2022-06-17

Talked To Amy About My Notion of Tlp As René Girard With Jacques Lacan;

2022-06-16

Reading Broken Hegemonies Again; the Concept of a Hegemonic Phantasm Outlined on P. 8 Will Be, I Think, Fairly Crucial

2022-06-08

@History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics

2022-06-05

Broken Hegemonies

2022-05-15

Imported @Recognizing Class just to see how it might work here
- Will be useful in outlining the polemical beginning of the #Book

Logseq Journal Archive

Table of Contents

2025-06-19

2024-12-05

Contemporary Techniques of Poetry: A Political Analogy

2024-12-02

Nihilistic Times: Thinking With Max Weber

2024-05-20

2024-04-25

Next Step: Stevens Section.

2024-04-17

2024-04-16

Sum up the Viconian Connection in the Demotic Chapter

2024-04-08

2024-03-29

2024-02-19

Todo Note Who Is Heidegger’s Hölderlin?

2024-02-07

21:49 Quick Capture: https://open.substack.com/pub/slavoj/p/will-she-ever-die?r=24k52&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

2024-01-17

Todo Read @hegel2018, Pgs. 447–467

2024-01-15

No References

2024-01-14

Done Check the Santayana Marginalia and Notebooks for Vico

2024-01-12

2024-01-11

Viconian Modernism Plan

2024-01-09

Foster, R. F. W.B. Yeats: A Life. Vol. 2. 2 Vols. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

2023-12-08

2023-12-07

Read the First Section of a Vision, “A Packet for Ezra Pound.”

2023-12-06

Vico, Giambattista, Giambattista Vico, Thora Ilin Bayer, and Donald Phillip Verene. Giambattista Vico Keys to the New Science: Translations, Commentaries, and Essays. Cornell Paperbacks. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2009.

2023-11-30

Viconian Modernism

2023-11-27

2023-11-25

@pinkard1994

2023-11-24

@From Alienation to Forms of Life: The Critical Theory of Rahel Jaeggi

2023-04-26

Forms of Life

2023-03-28

Two Papers: “Wittgenstein’s Khora” and “A Genealogy of the Ordinary”

2023-03-27

2023-02-06

Edited Joy’s Essay for Kubrick and Race

2023-01-31

Looked at @The Short-Timers in Special Collections; the Scene With the Hooker in the Film Really Is an Innovation of the Screenplay;

2023-01-30

Ashley Montagu Debate With Robert Ardrey—Frame for the Chapter.

2023-01-29

Jan 31th, 2023: @The Short-Timers Take Notes Here

2023-01-27

For Kubrick and Race Also Looked at @Nature, Human Nature, and Human Difference: Race in Early Modern Philosophy

2022-11-16

Looking at Brandom, @A Spirit of Trust: A Reading of Hegel’s Phenomenology

2022-11-15

Reading @hegel2018

2022-09-07

Reading @sedgwickEpistemologyCloset2008 Epistemology of the Closet for #cultural_environments

2022-08-25

Reading @harawayStayingTroubleMaking2016 Staying With the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene for #cultural_environments

2022-08-23

2022-08-17

Reading @derridaWritingDifference2001 Writing and Difference for #cultural_environments

2022-06-24

Thinking About Broken Hegemonies Again: To What Extent Is This an Ontologised Version of Cultural Studies?

2022-06-21

For Transhuman Mishima, Looking at Nick Bostrom’s Paper / @A History of Transhumanist Thought

2022-06-18

Notes for an Unpublishable Postscript

2022-06-17

Talked To Amy About My Notion of Tlp As René Girard With Jacques Lacan;

2022-06-16

Reading Broken Hegemonies Again; the Concept of a Hegemonic Phantasm Outlined on P. 8 Will Be, I Think, Fairly Crucial

2022-06-08

@History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics

Foster, R. F. W.B. Yeats: A Life. Vol. 2. 2 Vols. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.