Élan is preoccupied and not making a living.
Élan Reisner
Articles by Élan Reisner:
Dear Hypocrite: An Advice Column
in Issue 47 | Nocturne (Dec 2014)Why are you jealous? - Let's talk about crutches. - Is that a problem? If so, why, and for whom? - a supermarket which also sells therapy and used cars - bad council can come at the right time - recklessness (fearing too little) - self-conscious, unattractive, feminine - museums, bakeries, all the usual places I go to alone
Moonshiner
in Issue 41 | Infamy (Jun 2014)the obscurity of the night and putative cause of the vagaries of women - the chance of immunization carries a risk of overdose - future readers will experience in his homesickness an illumination - the moonlight reveals in an exaggerated fashion the workings of Marx’s commodity fetishism
R/exlex
in Issue 30 | The Daddy Issue (Jul 2013)first task of philosophy - « the Newton of the moral world » - it was the king’s very inviolability - « it is as though the state itself commits suicide. » - blasphemy against the Holy Ghost - every human being necessarily possesses the possibility of doing evil - our motivations are always mixed - calls up the shadow of its ideal
(neé Odradek)
in Issue 27 | Drone Robot Cyborg (Apr 2013)But of course this is insane - no cybernetic loom of fate that threatens - « only the kind of laughter that has no lungs behind it » - intertwining and disentangling - almost apophatic - to let the letter mutate - hallucinogenic Aristotelianism - it is precisely this confusion which philosophy dispels. - Mocking the narrator’s baby-talk interrogation
In Light of the Wineglass
in Issue 23 | Intoxicants (Dec 2012)Vermeer - a cordial scene - a double expectation - Temperance and Temptation - allegory and naturalism - an innermost surface which doubles, contains, and warps the outermost - the glare on the wineglass - criminal gullibility - the topographical boundaries of Eden
Untimely Translations
in Issue 18 | No Gods No Masters (Jul 2012)putting the dead to rest - Creon’s mistake - pious transgression - « Yet nothing/ more monstrous than man. » - the latest translation of Antigone - (the most terribly quiet of the terribly quiet customers) - amnesty - the god of slight but tragically decisive differences
The Alluring Glare of the Self-Evident
in Issue 17 | Hide and Seek (Jun 2012)the truly self-evident - it is more perfect for something to necessarily exist than to only possibly exist - theological residue - the exotic pleasure of unbounded intellectual charity - « in spite of my willingness and my resistance to it, it began to force itself upon me » - clarification and augmentation of that desire - « an island than which nothing greater can be thought »
Nothing Knowing
in Issue 16 | Stupidity (May 2012)in the space of the mind, knowledge abhors ignorance - nothing is - « doubt in order to doubt » - possible sources of error - sum nihil ergo sum - « something intermediate between God and nothing » - a rhetoric of gratitude
The Sabbath’s Recreation
in Issue 15 | The Elements (Apr 2012)rabbinic hermeneutics - the absolute perfection of the text - « He rested on the seventh day » - the erasure, rather than the solution - « like a man striking the hammer » - « Mortal man, who does not know his minutes » - the repetition of cessation - « a king who made a bridal chamber » - « If all the seas were of ink, and all ponds planted with reeds »