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What Bread-Weight Dreams May Come |
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I dreamt last night that weight was bread. More precisely, I dreamt that a kilogram was a loaf of dark, rye-like, round bread, about the diameter of a steering wheel. Read more | |
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Charles LaPorte: Seeming Prey |
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Victorian poetry is famous for documenting the emergence of key strains of secular modern thought, including those associated with natural science and modern biblical criticism. Breathtaking advances in astronomy, geology, and evolutionary biology during this era had produced a very different looking cosmos from that imagined in the book of Genesis. Read more | |
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Qigong’s Comeback |
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The Jinhua caves are located in a wooded, hilly area about 200 miles southwest of Shanghai. The most famous cave, Double Dragon Cave, is entered by a stream that passes under a stone overhang just a few inches above the water. Read more | |
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Medieval |
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Late in 2010, Google Labs introduced something called the NGram Viewer, which allows users to search a database of millions of published works and discover how often particular words have been used from year to year. Read more | |
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How dare they vote that way? |
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Betty Benevolence wants to save the world. Yet she has crazy ideas about how to do it. When she sees a starving child, she steals his remaining food. When she sees someone in pain, she kicks him in the shins. When she sees a drowning man, she pours water on his face. Read more | |
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Mugging the Story |
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The moment you really begin to understand what it means to be watching a silent film in 2012 occurs very near the beginning of Michael Hazanavicius’s The Artist. Read more | |
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We must question the validity of the Westphalian model as it applies to Greece… |
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Greece has a central position in the European imagination. Once modernity had established its legitimacy on the basis of antiquity, and a country such as Germany had constructed itself on a mystical affinity with Greece, it was impossible not to include Greece in the contemporary European scene. Read more | |
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Fait Divers in Lagos Teju Cole What fait divers means literally is “incidents,” or “various things.” The nearest English equivalent is “news briefs” or, more recently, “news of the weird.” The fait divers has a long and important history in French literature. Sensationalistic though it is, it has influenced the writing of Flaubert, Gide, Camus, Le Clézio and Barthes. In Francophone literature, it crossed the line from low to high culture. Read More |
Foucault’s Will to Know Stuart Elden It not simply that in Leçons sur la volonté de savoir the theme of power emerges and takes a central role in his thought, but that the very transition Foucault will find towards the end of the classical age is paralleled in Greek thought and politics. Foucault is forging his conceptual vocabulary through an analysis of the Greeks, but also in looking at their political transformations. Read More |
Spanish Imperium Genoese Emporium Céline Dauverd Doing away with the east-west narrative of racial superiority, the infertile post 9/11 civilizational clash account, I was more intrigued by the idea of imperialism as the product of a time usually defined as the Renaissance, an era which the educated mass perceives as epitomizing a cultural leap forward. Read More |
| 5. | We Who Draw |
| 1. | Two-One-Zoo |
| 2. | Explanations of What's Going On |
| 3. | Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens |
| 4. | Rotting Aroma |
| 5. | Hyrule |
| 6. | The Ducati Motorcycle Company of Bologna |
| 7. | A Free Joyce |