In Kant in Hong Kong travel, philosophy, and the city weave through one another. The book brings Immanuel Kant – famous for the regularity of his walks in his hometown of Königsberg – into the swarming streets of the hypermodern city and carries everyday urban experience into the labyrinthine texts of Kant’s critical idealism.

Can we know language? Or is language a game resisting knowledge? And what magic do we find in the words that we find within words? ‘linguistick-uistickling’ is Enrique Enriquez’s follow up on his previous work with the poetics of the Tarot.

The essays and shorter pieces in this collection treat writers of the Beat Generation, together with certain of their allies and ancestors. Authors whose works are considered include Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and Bob Kaufman, as well as Fitz Hugh Ludlow, James S. Lee and Ken Nordine. A theme seen implicitly to be linking these authors is their common yearning for utopian harmony and mystical transcendence, a desire that drives their vocation as pilgrims to elsewhere.

Cruel Theory | Sublime Practice consists of three parts. Each part addresses both theoretical and practical dimensions of Buddhism. Topics include the formation of an autonomous subject in the face of Buddhism’s concealment of its ideological force.

This book is about extracting what writing means to a few writers who formulate ideas about creative writing without, however, making claims to instruction. Can creative writing that produces knowledge be taught without a method?

David Gordon reminds us that, while the word God is no longer meaningful from a scientific point of view, it continues to denote a resonant myth in our imaginative lives. He directs our attention to those gifted writers (here called “literary antitheists”) who combat the presence of this myth in their own minds by finding artistic means to dramatize the resultant conflict.

This is the second of two volumes that gather a series of interviews and conversations between tarotist, philosopher, and visual artist, Enrique Enriquez and other seminal voices in the cartomantic community.

This is the first of two volumes that gather a series of interviews and conversations between tarotist, philosopher, and visual artist, Enrique Enriquez and other seminal voices in the cartomantic community.

Optical Biases is a collection of original epigrams. Each epigram is carefully culled, has a twist or edge, and is included as an aesthetic whole.

A collection of five daring, radical reconfigurations of ancient plays and myths by US playwright Caridad Svich, winner of a 2012 OBIE for Lifetime Achievement.

This collection of essays on the subject of theatre and various forms of censorship gathers in an original and stimulating manner the voices of academics, practitioners and artist-scholars.

Sophocles’s Oedipus Tyrannus (also known by its Latin title Oedipus Rex) is one of the world’s fundamental works of literature, the model for Aristotle’s theory of tragedy, and the inspiration for Freud’s Oedipus Complex.

En 2010 fut découvert une œuvre littéraire datant du début du XIXème siècle intitulée La Diabolique Tragédie.

In Tarology Enrique Enriquez sees the Tarot de Marseille through the prism and science of pataphysics, the science of imaginary solutions. By following into the footsteps of Oulipian writers, he applies the idea of constraint and the rule of restriction to the surprisingly visual and gestural nature of Tarot.

As the Biblical patriarch Jacob, after twenty years of exile, is about to cross the river that separates him from home, he gets into a nocturnal fight with a supernatural figure, traditionally referred to as ‘the angel’.

This is a book about extraction, about reducing methods of inquiry to the bare bones. It guides students through 10 schools of theory and criticism. The focus is on ‘asking’ each theory to give its best in the simplest way, by making us see what is at stake and how we might respond to it.

This book is an inédit presentation of three different texts referencing a Finnish sawmill through Sanskrit etymologies and the legend of ‘The Shining Ones,’ Giordano Bruno, and an Italian disaster.

The Winds of Ilion is an eclectic work that brings together poetry, academic essay, personal memoir, short-short story, and creative fragments in a manner redolent both of the early German romantics and of the Greek concept of moira.

The Winds of Ilion is an eclectic work that brings together poetry, academic essay, personal memoir, short-short story, and creative fragments in a manner redolent both of the early German romantics and of the Greek concept of moira.

Tragic writing emerges as a representation of a sacrificial crisis that calls into question the human relation to the divine.