The LLM and the Sharpness of Meaning
LLMs do not threaten literature through intelligence, but through their ability to multiply mediocrity until meaning becomes invisible.
Essays
Literature
Loose Pages
Dietary for Out-of-Date Beings I
Diets and food aversions of certain outdated individuals.
Loose Pages
Citario Nietzsche
On the anniversary of Friedrich Nietzsche’s birth, this citarium evokes his idol-shattering hammer, the lion that gives birth to the child, and the eternal return.
Bookspel
The Swedish Raffle for the Nobel Prize in Literature
Every fall, the press bets on the usual suspects, and every fall, the Swedish Academy comes up with a name that causes Wikipedia to crash.
Essays
The Means of Thought
Literature as the only means of transforming thought via solitary language.
Loose Pages
Gardening Friendships
The beauty, intelligence, and perseverance of flowers and gardens are intertwined with literary references, personal experiences, and connections to life, death, and nature.
Essays
The Doctor in Zürau
Suffering from tuberculosis, Kafka retired to Zürau, where he wrote his Aphorisms, an enigmatic work of metaphysical reflections.
Book Reviews
Identity and Body Transplantation. A Reading of ‘The Hands of Orlac’
When the body becomes alien and science breaks down identity.
Bouquiphiles
I left it in your mailbox ‘Con la vida por detrás. Fines de la literatura’
An elegant, twilight meditation on literature, which, already aware of its own mortality and limits in the face of pain, finds its dignity when it inhabits the ruins of language and memory.
Bouquiphiles
Reading to Escape
I read to save myself. I read everything, Greek theater and Sholokhov’s trash. Marcel Proust and the terrifying Chapaiev.