PinnedZachary HingOn the Impossibility of a Noble WritingRecently I wrote about my burning desire for a writing in the vein of War and Peace, a writing with a national character, a writing which…3 min read·Feb 6, 2022----
PinnedZachary HingOn Fiction & the Death of a National SpiritI’ve realised recently that much of the work I enjoy (not all of it) rests upon the appearance of an element of nationalism and/or national…5 min read·Nov 16, 2021----
Zachary HingThoughts on “Tenet”Tenet operates as an amalgamation of Hollywood action movie trappings. It runs like a precise machine, all the action scenes slickly…10 min read·Nov 29, 2023----
Zachary HingRepetitionI reread recently Lemurian Time War, part of the CCRU oeuvre. It had me reflecting on literary repetition, and in particular the parallels…4 min read·Feb 7, 2023----
Zachary HingCaptureAn important part of my writing practice for a long time has stemmed from the drive to capture, to arrest, to immortalise every beautiful…4 min read·Dec 27, 2022----
Zachary HingFading EmbersOn the horizon, like candles, hundreds of them burning, shimmering in the desert heat, soot-black plumes rising vertically. Above, a…1 min read·Dec 1, 2021--3--3
Zachary HingDifference and repetition reading notes: Difference-in-itselfDifference is what allows one to make determinations ‘between’ things. In this view, things distinguish themselves from each other : chair…14 min read·Sep 11, 2021----
Zachary HingNotes on “Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language”, Umberto EcoAs someone who has been stubbornly struggling with post-structural, post-modern, etc., etc. writers for a while I found this text useful…2 min read·Aug 4, 2021----
Zachary HingAnti-Oedipus: 3 Savages, Barbarians, Civilised MenThe third section is concerned with the genealogy of desiring-production, or its amalgamation in certain social forms. The three forms…7 min read·Apr 13, 2021----
Zachary HingAnti-Oedipus: 2 Psychoanalysis and FamilialismChapter two delves more deeply into the Oedipal triangle and social production, and all the ways they trap desiring production…6 min read·Feb 24, 2021----