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Alfred Jarry’s Days and Nights: Unraveling the Pataphysical Maze of Desertion and Illusion
Jarry's neglected novel becomes a feverish study in illusion, military absurdity, and the borderland between dream logic and desertion.

David Lapadat | Music PhD
Feb 175 min read


Alfred Jarry’s Supermale and Messalina: Excess at the Edge of the Human
Jarry pushes desire, stamina, and excess past realism into a zone where the human becomes grotesquely experimental.

David Lapadat | Music PhD
Nov 22, 20254 min read


Albert Camus on the Guillotine: Arguments Against the Death Penalty
Camus’ anti-execution argument is traced through justice, spectacle, and the moral corruption of a state that kills in the name of order.

David Lapadat | Music PhD
Sep 8, 20256 min read


The Plague and the Stage: Artaud’s Theatre of Cruelty as Spiritual Alchemy
Artaud’s theatre becomes a violent purgation aimed not at realism, but at the soul’s deeper contamination and shock.

David Lapadat | Music PhD
May 22, 20253 min read
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