by Legacy Russell Challenging notions of ownership and provenance, and acknowledging clashes of space and territory as part of the rich history of the East Village and the Lower East Side, the Rite of Reclamation is a call to action and an act of solidarity wherein residents and the artist alike processed the ever-evolving…
Read MoreIndians have remade London in various ways over the last five hundred years…
Read MoreWe must wrestle control from Big Tech. We must restore dignity to the dearly departed…
Read MoreDoes the universe have a beginning in time? If so, is it an argument for theism?
Read MoreNew Zealand has an innovative legacy of concrete construction dating back to the 1850s…
Read MoreThanks to Instagram and all its metastasized relations, nowhere is so far off the beaten path we can’t experience it visually…
Read MoreOur education system divided our nation, broadly along the lines of social class, choosing winners and losers at an early age…
Read Moreby Virginia Woolf The great ponds at Sheffield Place at the right season of the year are bordered with red, white and purple reflections, for rhododendrons are massed upon the banks and when the wind passes over the real flowers the water flowers shake and break into each other. But there, in an opening among…
Read MoreAfter Macbeth, Heart of Darkness. After Heart of Darkness, Howards End. Only connect. Just as the Marlow name provides a connection to Heart of Darkness, the Bast name links To the Lighthouse with Howards End. Old Mrs. Bast’s name builds a powerful bridge by way of poor Leonard Bast.
Read MoreRarely do scholars of Žižek speak of themselves or their work as Žižekian…
Read MoreDeath Mask, Yanyun Chen, 2013 by Jeremy Fernando … the highest function of the sign is to make reality disappear and, at the same time, to mask that disappearance. — Jean Baudrillard, The Perfect Crime To conquer death you only have to die, you only have to die —Tim Rice, ‘Jerusalem’ There is a famous…
Read MoreFrom Eurozine: Barack Obama’s updated version of the so-called war on terror has received a free pass from most US political and legal scholars. To be sure, civil libertarians and liberal voices on the editorial pages of the New York Times have pilloried Obama for his failure to fulfil what appeared to be heartfelt 2008…
Read MoreDeath Wish advertisement, from Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper, 9 August 1974 by Nicholas Rombes Sixties, punk as an affirmation of Mark Perry, the founder of one of the earliest punk fanzines Sniffin’ Glue, has said, “Although [punk] was entirely connected to the hippy politics, it was entirely the natural progression of hippies’ ‘anti-establishmentism,’ I think.…
Read MorePortrait of Arnold Schoenburg, Egon Schiele, 1917 by Sabine Feisst Arnold Schoenberg, the famous Viennese-born composer and pioneer of musical modernism, was one of the many refugees from Nazi tyranny who settled in the United States in the 1930s and never again set foot on European soil. Yet despite his eighteen fruitful years (1933-1951) in…
Read Moreby Russell Bennetts David Mikics is a professor at the University of Houston and writes on Renaissance literature, twentieth century poetry and fiction, continental philosophy, and literary theory. His published works are on ideas which range from pathos and subjectivity in Spenser and Milton to individualism in Emerson and Nietzsche. His current book, Who Was Jacques Derrida? provides a summary…
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