by Gene Tanta | Jun 18, 2013 | Blog
The utter absence of Romanian feminism in the Academy as well as in everyday life has been one of the most surprising takeaways from living in Bucharest for the past year as a Fulbrighter. It seems Patriarchy has won the day through deployment of pressures both...
by Gene Tanta | May 22, 2013 | Blog
Are immigrants better at putting deconstruction to work? As an immigrant myself, I think I understand Jacques Derrida because he was also an immigrant. The immigrant experience—mine, to be sure—is one of becoming decentered and of finding one self in a foreign...
by Gene Tanta | Apr 18, 2013 | Blog
J=o=u=i=s=s=a=n=c=e Knows Best PS: I misread “you” instead of the “I” you have. How does this change the tone of the text? How does this change the idiomatic expression itself: “I break for strangers†or “I will rock you like a...
by Gene Tanta | Feb 12, 2013 | Blog
 Our I First Our Looking: Interview with Performance Workshop participants at Atelier 35, Bucharest, Romania The following interview is a performer-centered echo of a bunch of cool art students and Irina Botea (the organizer of the Dec 2012-Jan 2013 workshop) with...
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by Gene Tanta | Jan 15, 2013 | Blog
The philosopher and the poet differ in that the poet knows (rather she feels-knows) the closure that is the defining characteristic of a system is fictional (in more or less interesting ways) … a philosopher may intuit this self-blinding circuit of dialectical...
