by Michael Lesiuk | May 16, 2013 | Fiction/Lit/Movies
Joe Hill has a new book out, and it’s filled with references to his father, Stephen King, to David Mitchell, and to Gerard Manley Hopkins (and to others, I’m sure). Although the references to Mitchell are somehow the most surprising to me, it’s the references to...
by Michael Lesiuk | Mar 11, 2013 | Fiction/Lit/Movies
I’m re-reading Stephen King’s Dark Tower series (so I know the ending), and so far I’ve been very impressed. Having re-read the earlier ones again (I’m on the sixth book, Song of Susannah, right now), some of the things that I was on the fence...
by Michael Lesiuk | Aug 21, 2012 | Random Convolutes
Standard Žižek. Vulgar jokes combined with an encouragement to not settle for your initial, first-glance interpretation. Also, the idea that Hegel somehow thought that history’s over with him, that he comes at the end. It’s — I mean,...
by Michael Lesiuk | Aug 17, 2012 | Random Convolutes
How do you represent what can’t be represented? (Painfully inadequate metaphors, duh.) Then, the Symbolic Real. It’s simply, for example, scientific discourse, scientific formulas, like quantum physics. Why is this Real? For a simple reason: the minimum...
by Michael Lesiuk | Aug 9, 2012 | Writing Convolutes
I like his method. I have a very complicated ritual about writing. It’s psychologically impossible for me to sit down, so I have to trick myself. I operate a very simple strategy which, at least, with me, works. I put down ideas, but I put them down usually...