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Simon Critchley on Wallace Stevens’s poetic thesis: ‘God is dead, therefore I am. The problem is that it is not at all clear who I am’ (Critchley 2005: 43). 

And J. Hillis Miller: ‘God is dead, therefore I am. But I am nothing. I am nothing because I have nothing, nothing but awareness of the barrenness within and without’ (1990: 35).

William Wordsworth, Wallace Stevens, Virginia Woolf in The Waves, Alice Oswald, Jean Dubuffet in his “Anticultural Position” speech, Simone Weil in Gravity and Grace