Category: architecture
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In his Meditations, Descartes cites watching people bundled in winter dress at a distance as an example of the gap between perception and judgment: If I look out of the… more ›
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My most recent fantasy: live part-time in Havana and start an English-language walking tour, modeled after Brendan’s Isherwood’s Neighborhood tour in Berlin, retracing the sites and scenes of Reinaldo Arenas’… 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… more ›
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What we call things, and how we classify those things, is necessarily an abstraction. We take what we perceive to be individual items and group them together according to some… more ›
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Below are some of my photos from a recent trip to Rome. This collection is of architectural ruins and art/historical objects that I found compelling. Colosseo I Colosseo II Bernini’s… more ›
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wczesno-ptasi gotykuWho dare writes such a magical phrase?!?! And it confounds me why those other translators have rendered this line into barely suitable English: “early ornithogothic.” What a disservice to… more ›
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The conversation based on stories–the historical conversation–attests to this difficulty. Instead of an organic dialog arising between self and other, each subject subjects the other to metanarrativity. One hears the… more ›