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)
In the Name of Language
In his essay “On Language as Such and on the Language of Man,” Walter Benjamin writes of how “we cannot imagine a total absence of language in anything,” because nothing exists without its own relation to language in human mental life.