Nicholas Hiromura is writing a dissertation on Carl Schmitt at the University of Bonn.
Nicholas Hiromura
Articles by Nicholas Hiromura:
Consummate Damnation: Lampedusa’s “The Leopard”
in Issue 25 | Conservatism and Reaction (Feb 2013)rising and falling - anything to conserve - obsessed with the idea of doing - doing nothing the ideal state - this sublime defeatedness - Sicily’s absolute sloth - « our voluptuous frozenness: all of them do » - nothing more than being - « because we are gods » - « the irreparable is that things are »
Championing Rusticus
in Issue 18 | No Gods No Masters (Jul 2012)Ezra Pound - « yeah, but he was a fascist. » - its extravagance, its too-large-to-be-containedness - primordial unity - « in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in the sequence of the metronome » - Whitman, the odoriferous democrat - « worthy of record » - the opulence of their silence
Endnotes to an Ode on a Grecian Urn
in Issue 14 | Innocence (Mar 2012)history without footnotes - against all commentary - a very quiet bride - there is something more to the poem than just the poem - they are: the vessels - I think the town is a poem. - the melody closest to but not yet silence - What should have ravished her?