Paul de Man Lectures With and Without Words by Josh Maday
Flickering strobe lights and loud music cross-pollinated
inside the lecture theater. A man, Paul de Man, sat at a desk with two pillars
of books standing on either side of the work area in front of him. A large
screen on the wall behind him showed a live video feed of his actions. Paul de
Man sat at the desk, his chair sometimes tucked in tightly underneath him and
other times pushed back so that he had to lean forward to continue slicing
feverishly with his scissors. He had already been working for some time when
his students entered, sat, and watched as he sliced apart a copy of Nietzsche’s
The Gay Science without speaking.
First, he cut the aphorisms unto themselves. Then he cut
away passages that interested him. And those that bored him. Soon he separated
the paragraphs. Next: sentences. In the end, he performed the violent schism of
words, isolating each from the others, reducing the following texts to their
elemental state: Rousseau’s The Social Contract, Confessions,
Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy, The Will to Power, Rilke’s Sonnets
to Orpheus, The Book of Images, Heidegger’s Being and Time,
Austin’s Philosophical Papers, Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, Perpetual
Peace, Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, Blake’s The Marriage of
Heaven and Hell. Paul de Man chopped and slit and sheared and razored the
pages, tossing aside the spine and cover carcasses. Every few minutes, he looked
upon the orgy of dismembered ideas and emotion piled on the table in front of
him and shuddered.
Paul de Man disregarded the eyes needling into his mind, in
search of an explanation. He felt them peel into his image on the screen while
he sat untouched and intact. Still, Paul de Man felt naked, exposed by every
flash of light, over and over. He took off his clothes. The strobe light
chopped his naked body in time, chattered his movement through space, rendering
a spectacle of 30 Paul de Man’s per second. The students grew disoriented and
impotent and nauseous. Finished with this infinite excision, Paul de Man stood
and swiped his arms across the desk, sending a snowfall of lingual confetti
fluttering to the floor.
People started getting sick. Paul de Man rubbed glue all
over his body amidst the sound of vomiting. He lay his tacky body down in the
mental dander and rolled around, thrashing his limbs and his intellect about.
The music reached crescendo. Retinas burned out. Agony broke loose throughout the
lecture theater. Paul de Man stood: his body clothed, covered, coated in the
words of Nietzsche, Rousseau, Blake, Proust, and everyone everywhere. He swayed
in the stuttering darkness. Shuffling imperceptibly. Feeling the langue crawl
up between his toes. He listened to the sick moaning and heaving in his
audience, out there, between the flashes. A smile pulled at the corner of his
mouth. Paul de Man approached the video camera. His naked wordy chest came
flickering into focus on the screen. His nipples said (certain) (words) (yet)
(again) (perhaps) (always) (death). Class dismissed.
Bio:
Josh Maday lives a few miles outside of New York City, in Saginaw, Michigan. He blogs at a place somewhere. He does not know when to stop.
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He's sick! This guy's sick. If he ever faces other people again doing that, he might as well immerse himself in vinegar after mutiliating his body with a single razor!
damn..he is not sick.. he is
damn..he is not sick.. he is just too good for people like you to understand. Grow up man
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Paul de Man lectures are really awesome. I love them and learned much.
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The students grew disoriented
The students grew disoriented and
impotent and nauseous. Finished with this infinite excision, Paul de Man stood
and swiped his arms across the desk, sending a snowfall of lingual confetti
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