Daniel ChengMilton and the Economics of FaithIn John Milton’s first major English poem, “On the Death of a Fair Infant Dying of a Cough,” Milton constructs an epitaph for the death of…Jan 30, 2017Jan 30, 2017
Daniel Cheng再見 — Goodbye GrandmotherForgive me, for I cannot speak The mother tongue you gave to me. All I can do today is seek To write you in apostropheJan 29, 20171Jan 29, 20171
Daniel ChengErich Fried on “What is Love?”In “Was es ist,” the German poet Erich Fried explores the conditions of love and identification. The poem begins:Nov 7, 2016Nov 7, 2016
Daniel ChengOn what Basis Should We Accept Refugees?The most common antidote to solving the problem of Otherization is subjectivization. In more colloquial terms, we generally try to fight…Jul 6, 2016Jul 6, 2016
Daniel ChengHeideggerian Technology and Marxian EconomicsIn Heidegger’s famous and mostly impenetrable text, “The Question Concerning Technology,” Heidegger offers us a transvaluation of…Jun 1, 2016Jun 1, 2016
Daniel ChengWhy We Still Need Dick PunsIn the Marquis de Sade’s pornographic works (or in Deleuze’s terms, pornological, a term I do not invoke frivolously) what one unexpectedly…Apr 6, 2016Apr 6, 2016
Daniel ChengLear, Linguistics, and Legality - Lessons from Shakespeare’s BastardFor reference, this post’s object of study is Edmund’s soliloquy from Act I, Scene II of King Lear, offered below:Mar 12, 2016Mar 12, 2016
Daniel ChengIn Defense of Moral RelativityIn Gilles Deleuze’s Coldness and Cruelty, he explains that the function of the Law has supposedly been to uphold a Platonic vision of what…Mar 4, 2016Mar 4, 2016
Daniel ChengAgainst “Being Useful”The number of people who want to be “useful” and learn “useful skills” and “add value” is absolutely absurd. Do you know what else is…Dec 4, 2015Dec 4, 2015