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17The Double-Mirror Gaze, Transcoded Testimony, and Disqualified Witnesses in the TalmudJournal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy 31 (2): 127-162. 2023.I will argue that the underlying rationale for the talmudic list of trades disqualified from legal testimony is aesthetic. These trades involved professional mimicry, which as such incapacitated what R. Neis has termed “homovisuality” or self-referential witnessing in the Talmud. Reading talmudic laws of conjoined testimony and the induction of witnesses in light of Deleuze’s and Blanchot’s philosophy, I will argue that homovisuality entailed the witness’s reincarnation as the subject of the eve…Read more
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11Infames, Roman Judicial Theatre, and the Mimesis of ProcessPhilosophia: International Journal of Philosophy (Philippine e-journal) 24 (2). 2023.
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13The little crystalline seed: the ontological significance of mise en abyme in post-Heideggerian thoughtState University of New York Press. 2019.Mise en abyme is a term from literary theory denoting a work that doubles itself within itself, for example a story placed within a story or a play within a play. Proliferating in experimental fiction in midcentury France, this technique had a strong impact on contemporary literary theory, but also, as this book project argues, on post-Heideggerian and post-structuralist philosophy. The Little Crystalline Seed focuses on how three of these thinkers invoke the concept of mise en abyme in order to…Read more
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23“Infinite Responsibility” and the Pitfall of NegationPhilosophy Today 62 (3): 765-783. 2018.I shall show that Levinas’s idea of infinite responsibility draws on Blanchot’s mechanism of “worklessness” which in turn explicitly draws on Gide’s mechanism of retroaction and the mise en abyme—a story that doubles itself within itself—which the latter accounts for. However, a false picture of mise en abyme and worklessness brought Levinas to two interrelated misconceptions. First, of the act of responsibility as inherently futile. Second, of repetition as “mechanical,” comprising instances wh…Read more
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21The Sefer as a Challenge to Reception TheoriesJournal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy 26 (1): 67-93. 2018._ Source: _Volume 26, Issue 1, pp 67 - 93 The talmudic sages granted the legal status of _sefer_ to five texts: the Torah, _tefillin_, the _get_, the _mezuzah_, and the Scroll of Esther. These texts share two features: they have a ritualistic format and use, and they are the only sacred texts that demonstrate _mise en abyme_—the trait of literary self-containing. These two traits turn the rabbinic book into a radical case of “open work”: the _sefer_ consists of both textual signs and the actual …Read more
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17The Book as Assemblage with the Outside"- The Rhizomatic Book as a Radical Case of "Open WorkJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 46 (1): 16-32. 2015.In the present paper, I shall argue that the book which Deleuze terms rhizomatic is a type of “open work”, namely a work that comprises its recipient's intervention as an encoder. It is distinguished, however, from Eco's and Ingarden's poetics – as well as from Gadamer's hermeneutics – in that the recipient actually inscribes. He inscribes in the sense that the book is “hybrid”, consisting of both semiotic text and the actual body and actions of an empirical – rather then an implied – reader. I …Read more
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31Using Mise en abyme to Differentiate Deleuze and DerridaJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 48 (1): 63-80. 2017.ABSTRACTIn this paper I shall tackle the problem of differentiating Deleuze and Derrida. Various writers have done so, comparing these philosophers’ conceptions of repetition and difference. I shall attempt to enrich, sharpen and sometimes criticize these writers by exploring the paradigm through which Deleuze and Derrida have reflected upon repetition and difference in the first place: the mise en abyme, a literary concept designating a work that doubles itself within itself. I shall argue that…Read more
Areas of Interest
Aesthetics |
Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality |
Continental Philosophy |