Dietary for Out-of-Date Beings III
Other diets and food aversions of certain outdated individuals.
Loose Pages
José Lezama Lima
Essays
Geometry and the Jungle (Notes on the diaries of Valéry and Lezama)
Divergences and convergences between Valéry’s subtractive method and Lezama’s baroque exuberance to show the diary as a machine of thought and metaphysical creation.
Loose Pages
Citario Lezama
Various outside voices have sought to read, discuss, or surround him, and in doing so have constructed an indirect portrait: Lezama seen through the sum of his echoes, controversies, and dazzling moments.
Essays
Lezama Looks at El Greco
Lezama sees El Greco as a Baroque painter who fused Venetian and Castilian styles, transcending into modernity.
Book Reviews
Focillon, Forms, Lezama
The enduring influence of Focillon’s essay on the poetics and literary theory of José Lezama Lima, where artistic forms are living and timeless entities, with echoes in the Baroque and creative intuition.
Essays
Russia or the Novel as Destiny
The Russian novel, where history and reality merge into symbolic narrative.
Essays
On the Subsistence of the Soul and the Visible Dance of Objects
From Thomas Aquinas to Lezama and Peirce, truth does not contradict, but resonates aesthetically as the living form of being.
Loose Pages
Second Neo-Realist Manifesto (From Peirce to Lezama Lima)
Transcendental Realism understands reality as an aesthetic and relational experience, resolving oppositions through a trichotomous function that transcends binary logic.
Essays
Uncoordinates around Lezama
The Baroque strives to incorporate things into its barbaric substance. It attacks perception and, therefore, ethics. It corrupts reality.