Category: memory

• Forgotten Art

  Dec 8

  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 ›

• The Crimean Tense: When Past Is Present

  Mar 6

  Referencing the past is a weak form of analysis and one that offers little insight to the current situation in Ukraine. The Russian occupation of Crimea is distinctly not like… more ›

• Eulogy for Lou Reed

  Nov 7

  I didn’t know Lou Reed. No, I never met the man. Yet I am certain, because of the authenticity I perceived in his songs, that I nevertheless knew him, albeit… more ›

• Twenty-One

  Aug 1

  Twenty-one years ago he was traveling by train from Warsaw to Szczecin with his friends in the Corps. It was late and after a bottle or two of Żubrówka. He wanted to doze,… more ›

• Fireworks

  Jul 2

  During the holiday fireworks over the weekend he remembered his grandfather who lost his sight in the early days of World War II. Every Fourth of July his grandparents would… more ›

• In Budapest

  Jun 4

  He remembers: the last time he heard a live cover of Bob Dylan’s “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” was late February 1996 in a basement pizza parlor in Budapest before heading… more ›

• The Rites of the Storm

  May 29

  We woke up early today, earlier than usual. But no day’s sleep can really be called that: usual. Even after resorting to sleeping apart. Alone. Last night it was the… more ›

• Barabbas, Son of the Father (In Our Age)

  Dec 31

  It was unanimous: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John have the Jews calling out the name Barabbas, calling out for Barabbas’s release, calling for the crucifixion of Jesus, the other Son… more ›

• The Ruination and Salvation of Life/Writing, Part II

  Jul 11

  Because writing, for Blanchot, exposes all of us (authors, readers, translators, interpreters) to the impersonal anonymity of (and in) language, our task of assigning “reality” to our experience is problematized… more ›

• The Ruination and Salvation of Life/Writing, Part I

  Jul 9

  The myth of the origin of written language as told by Socrates in the Phaedrus: Theuth declares that written language, the materiality of the word, will make the Egyptians wiser… more ›