Parasites
The ‘creditor’ always becomes more humane as his wealth increases; finally, the amount of his wealth determines how much injury he […]
Category: arts
Station to Station (or How Not to Make a Film)
Another film I saw at the fourth annual Oak Cliff Film Festival was dir. Doug Aitken’s Station to Station. Billed […]
Errant Thought
The Humanities! The very name should call up something wild. From the moment Socrates started wandering the Greek market and […]
Life is a Cabaret
I’ve been a fan of Brendan Nash’s blog and I’ve been following him on Twitter since this past summer. When I […]
Embrace/Suffering
“Talent deprived of the gift of sorrow produces only near-values.” In 1932, John Graham completed Embrace, a 30 x 36 […]
Prostrate Before Saint Genet
I spent the day focused on work and research, and yet this day has felt like debauched decadence: I began this […]
Malevich and Suprematism, Part 3: A Desert of Pure Feeling
Since I have sworn that I would not pursue retranslating Malevich’s Suprematism manifesto until after completing the dissertation, I’ll use […]
Malevich and Suprematism, Part II: Gadamerian Hermeneutics
In Part 1, Section 1.2B.iv “The limits of Erlebniskunst and the rehabilitation of allegory” in Truth and MethodGadamer delineates between […]
Malevich and Suprematism, Part I
Kazimir Severinovich Malevich [Казимир Северинович Малевич] was Russian in its most contested forms: he was born in Ukraine of ethnic […]
Bullet-Point Friday: Words
I somehow managed to pass the 10,000-word mark on Chapter Two this afternoon. That was my goal when I sat […]
