I. “essays”
In the Name of Language: Walter Benjamin’s “On Language as Such and the Language of Man”
Dictee, or Odes to (): Introductions for Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
Prepositions of a Martyr: A Renaissance Erotics of Innocence and Friendship
The Roulette of Angels: A Brief History of Angel Island
The Forgeries of Eros: Reading Transparency and Translation in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Notes on “Good Health” (kalos kakon)
II. “fiction”
III. “inter alia”
a short film I would like to re-make: In a beautiful country, mothers grow (2019)
Dictee, or Odes to ()
This is an essay of introductions to a book which is infamously difficult to read. It considers Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee as a lyric using one line as an entry for reading its others: “Inside outside. As if never.”[2]