The principal shift in the transition from German to French theory is the abandonment of any ethical duty to the biggest picture of all, that of society…
Read MoreThe penalty in rocket fuel for mining on Mars is pretty big. Asteroids are better…
Read MoreIt was not just in liberal consumer societies that families recorded vacations and rites of passage. Home cameras and projectors were also available in socialist societies like the German Democratic Republic…
Read MoreDoes the universe have a beginning in time? If so, is it an argument for theism?
Read MoreI actively supported Obama in 2008. I voted for him and I still feel it was the right thing to do. But I did not vote for Obama in 2012, or for Clinton in 2016. Why did I not vote?
Read MoreTemperamentally conservative poetry critic David Lehman chose only one lyric by Bob Dylan to include in his 2006 The Oxford Book of American Poetry.
Read MoreThe first time Edwina Fray, TV cook and punk gourmet celebrity, saw the green dragon, it was stood on her shocking pink marbled kitchen work surface…
Read MoreIt seems when we hear a skylark singing as if sound were running forward into the future, running so fast and utterly without consideration…
Read MoreI first met Gregory Leadbetter in Trivandrum, in its notorious, sweltering heat. Curiously enough, I’d been placed in a couple of panels on love and feminism…
Read MoreExcavated from the Iraqi desert at Tel Asmar in 1933 by a group of archeologists from the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute were a dozen votive figurines
Read MoreThe months of spring saw a slew of attacks on wishful thinking and the creative imagination. Their authors skewered every ‘utopist’ and ‘visionary’ known to history…
Read MoreRecently, I learned of the passing of Fakir Musafar, the renowned body artist whose professional and creative life (and, as far as I know, personal life, as well)
Read Moreby Eric D. Lehman It is in Key West I first decide to become anonymous. In an age when everyone was constantly signaling their existences, I would turn out the lights, disappear into the background of the painting, unplug from the matrix of the modern world. I would unbecome. It would be the greatest accomplishment…
Read MoreBehold, the first odd prime, designator of our three dimensions, that which was the number of times Peter denied Christ, the number of times Satan tempted him, and the number of days he spent in the grave…
Read MoreThirty-three years in the making, Critical Assembly details the thoughts and experiences of forty-six people involved in the creation of the atomic bomb.
Read MoreThe incestuous entanglements of the Ontario Hydro One Board of Directors reflects the absurdity of the corporatized regime under which the earth continues to be exploited under the motivations of ‘economic prosperity’.
Read MoreWhat shocked me was how quickly I said to myself, in earnest certainty, that “We have today no American poet who is anywhere near as powerful and important to poetry as Nabokov is to prose fiction.”
Read MoreThe Germans were over this house last night and the night before that. Here they are again. It is a queer experience, lying in the dark and listening to the zoom of a hornet which may at any moment sting you to death.
Read MoreUntil very recently, I have avoided writing about Hamlet. With the occasional exception, I have also avoided teaching Shakespeare’s most famous play. I might have casually referred to this avoidance as “The Hamlet Effect.”
Read MoreWe pulled off the main road and began to climb to the remote village in western Macedonia where I had been born.
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