Drinking Fountains
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Editor's Picks
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Culture is Left Gregory Jusdanis Although Michael Kazin does not, I would like to propose that culture has always been Left, devoted to transforming modes of thought and discourse. Preoccupied with the realm of the imaginary and the possible, culture has concerned itself with ways of doing and thinking that are not limited by the here and now. Read More |
Yo Borges Jon Beasley-Murray What does it mean to “read Borges”? What are we even striving to read? “Borges” is a cipher: a proper name that stands in for a set of texts with which that name is associated. It’s a figure or speech or language, a form of metonymy: part stands for whole. Read More |
Objects as Temporary Autonomous Zones Tim Morton Life, and in particular human life, and in particular human politics, is well served by the usages of autonomy. What about the rest of reality, however? Read More |
