for dutch speakers/readers : what a treasure is marian donner! but to call her the žižek of the lowlands is doing her a disservice. is that the only unconventional, irreverent, radical thinker that comes to mind? in this interview, in part about her new book ‘rooksignalen’, donner mentions such a thinker, igor van krochten, who was her teacher : his obituary and this prophetic interview with him from 1996.

speaking of teachers, for the monolinguist, here is a wonderful essay about being taught by gillian rose, and many things, from the london review of books, by jenny turner called ‘what else actually is there?’

indeed.

anyway. how are things? how did you get here? you must have typed the web address you found on the back of a book i once wrote into a browser. why don’t you write to me? my e-mail address is my first name and the first letter of my surname (so the domain name you typed in to get here minus the dot com) @gmail.com. i’ll write back!