tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post7535862249231385141..comments2024-03-10T20:46:19.274-04:00Comments on In the Middle: Ce visage qui n'en est pas unCord J. Whitakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06224143153295429986noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-60559470271522169212012-01-26T13:15:37.630-05:002012-01-26T13:15:37.630-05:00I am going to steal your updates idea: since I hav...I am going to steal your updates idea: since I have used this blog to compose this book, why not employ it to give the work an afterlife?<br /><br />Then again I am already so tired of the lithic that I have been spotted around DC kicking random pebbles from my path while cursing.<br /><br />I love what you've done with the Herdsman's herd, the composition of which I'd never thought much about previously. Invoking Derrida's l'animot is especially apt, considering that he glosses the term via the ultimate composite creature, the chimera: <br /><br />"Ecce animot. Neither a species nor a gender nor an individual, it is an irreducible living multiplicity of mortals, and rather than a double clone or a portmanteau word, a sort of monstrous hybrid, a chimera waiting to be put to death by its Bellerophon ... monstrousness derived precisely from the multiplicity of the animot in it (head and chest of a lion, entrails of a goat, tail of a dragon).” <br /><br />Add a leopard and an auroch and you are good to go.Jeffrey Cohenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17346504393740520542noreply@blogger.com