Mallarmé (Stéphane) Archives

November 13, 2014 • by McKenzie Wark

Quentin Meillassoux's The Number and the Siren (published by Urbanomic and Sequence Press, and elegantly translated by Robin Mackay) is quite simply the most beautiful book by a philosopher that I have read for many years. It is a highly original reading of Stéphane Mallarmé's Coup De Dés. If the objective of Meillassoux’s ...

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Writing Moves the Sky

“To write is to jump outside the line of the assassins.” – Franz Kafka

November 22, 2013 • by Leslie Kaplan

First of all I would like to thank the New School, and Edith Kurzweil who invited me to this eighth William Phillips lecture and gave me the opportunity to come to the prestigious New School.

My father Harold Kaplan was a great friend of William Phillips, who published his first short ...