How to Live Now or Never: Essays and Experiments 2005-2013 PDF
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How TO LIVE Now or NEVER alejandro de acosta HOW to LIVE NOW or NEVER ESSAYS ancl EX PERIMENTS 2005-2013 Jllejandro de Jlcosta How to Live Now or Never: Essays and Experiments 2005-2013 Alejandro de Acosta Published by Aragorn Moser and Leona Benton Printed at "The Compound" 1818 Carleton St. Berkeley, CA 94703-1908 Repartee/LBC Books Licensed under Creative Commons 2014 CONTENTS Notes IBU Perfect Ape 1 1 Anarchist Meditations 1 5 'That Teaching is Impossible 5 5 Reading and Not Reading - 7 5 Wandering off from Wi[(ful Disobedience 8 9 How You and I Might Meet 1 2 5 A Lesson in Desire 1 3 5 Love / Boredom 1 43 The space now spaced 1 49 Cynical Lessons 1 5 3 Absolute Typhos 1 7 9 Theses on the Superiority of the Dry Wit 1 9 9 Notes o n Nothing 2 1 5 Points on Time and History 2 2 1 Failure, Resistance 2 6 5 Selected References 2 7 3 1t is here esteemed contrary to the rules of art to represent any thing cool and indifferent. - Hume, Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals NO TES A condensation of notes touching on many tropes of this collection, offered here in place of an introduction. . . . el niiio acepta, no com para - Borges It is written by a butterfly for butterflies - Wilde A I want to wander off as I write, to do something other than take a position even when I seem to be doing so; to invoke proper names, even in the form of homage, without attaching my own to them in some familiar intellectual vampirism. For that game to unfold, an essay should be a sketch, but not in the sense of a draft. Its wandering has to do with patience-with the calm breath that dwells in ambiguity or ambivalence, and perhaps at the end, some kind of skepticism. For what is wandered off from is the thesis, or rather serious expectations concerning the wielding of the thesis. Behind such seriousness I diagnose an anxious demand to align oneself, the countless partis pris (post-, anti-, -isms). In this way, in poor taste, prose can be littered with unexamined codewords, slogans, dull indices. 3
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