Rage's Wager: Essays on a Difficult Affect
Rage’s Wager enters the furnace to ask what rage destroys—and what it desperately tries to save. Moving through psychoanalysis, literature, politics, childhood, and Camus, M.H. Bowker traces rage to the wounds of loss and shame, revealing it as a perilous wager: shatter the world, and perhaps recover a self within it from the ruins.
by Matthew H. Bowker
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As If / Als Ob: On Transcendental Judgment and the Dichotomy between Seeming and Being
As If / Als Ob explores how human beings survive without firm foundations — how judgment, identity, and responsibility persist through illusion, performance, and fragile coherence when certainty collapses. A philosophical–psychoanalytic meditation on seeming, being, and damaged subjectivity.
by Matthew H. Bowker
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Lawn Pig: A Critique of Nothingness
Following "Superatomic Guignols Untrammeled: A Critique of Irrationality," this work interrogates “nothing” not as concept but as the experience(s) of loss, deprivation, and environmental failure, using psychoanalysis, philosophy, and formal experiment to undo the consolations of the abstract notion of "nothingness."
by Matthew H. Bowker
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Génopsenseur: Genius / Censor / Psychopath
A monodrama in which the individual's Genius, his inner censor (The Censor), and his (universal, nuclear) Psychopath discuss their inter-relations and the management of human subjectivity, identity, meaning, and experience.
by Matthew H. Bowker
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Annotations of a Failure
An author, his mother (deceased), his brother (schizophrenic), and the annotation (The Annotator) converse about a failed 3 volume book of poetry, entitled “The Quiet Transgression of Being,” and devoted to the question of original sin, understood psychanalytically as the intuition of sin or crime at being alive and conscious.
by Matthew H. Bowker
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Superatomic Guignols Untrammeled: A Critique of the Irrational
A critique of the irrational written in the "style of the irrational." Cognitively disjointed yet emotionally authentic language permits this text, as Wallace Stevens once described poetry, to "resist the intelligence almost successfully."
by Matthew H. Bowker
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