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IA certain Texas university announced today that it would free 100 employees from the shackles of employment by the end of next month. IIYears ago there were two boys who attended the same rural school in East Texas. One was… more ›
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In his Ecce Homo Nietzsche defines his term immoralist (“Why I Am a Destiny” §4, trans Walter Kaufmann). In this one term lies two negations: the negation of the type of person who heretofore has been considered supreme (“the good, the benevolent, the… more ›
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WritingThe irony is that in the year that I’ve written the most, I’ve blogged the least. You would think that writing is writing, and that one kind of writing would necessarily impact in a positive, quantitative way other kinds of… more ›
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It seems that I’ve gotten several new visitors to this blog from the TOL article on Prague’s late communist public art. Here are two more works that I spent a lot of time with this summer and that I’ve spent… more ›
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Forgotten Art – Transitions Online A link to my article on artist-activist Pavel Karous, who has spent the past several years advocating for the preservation of public art created during the last two decades of communism. I contextualize his work… more ›
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Don’t be shy about asking me about my work or what I do. I wrote a photo essay on the Berlin Wall based on my research there. I’m currently writing another photo essay about various sites in Prague, covering topics… more ›
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In Rossellini’s Germany, Year Zero Berlin’s bombed-out buildings manifest the destruction the war had already wreaked inside the characters’ lives. The city, once a specific site of history, becomes in Rossellini’s harsh and unforgiving light a non-place. It is at once a… more ›