Louis Armand Feasts of Unrule

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"Feasts of Unrule is a condensed treatise on the philosophy of right & on human rights in general, & on the genealogy of morals in particular. In dialogue with Arendt & Derrida, Armand critiques the ascendency of Platonic "reason" to the detriment of poetry (so-called unreason), humanity, freedom & the liberty of one's own soul. Against Sartre, Armand argues that for a free-spirited poetry "to choose truth" is to be "committed" to writing, itself. In the present revenance of Cold War apocalypticism, such poetry is suppressed wherever it disputes a social order that desires to "own" the rhetoric of terror. Through the dissident writings of Darwish, Goytisolo & Rimbaud, Feasts of Unrule challenges the compulsive doublespeak of those regimes of "impossibility" - from Russia & Israel to the invisible third eye of capital - that stand in the way of a decolonization of western mind. Louis Armand's latest book is a poetic outcry & a howl against the dogmas of corporate-state power." Nina Zivančevic