I was thumbing through Borges’ Collected Fictions this afternoon when I came across one of my favorite stories by the great Argentine fabulist, Inferno, I, 32. Its profundity is matched only by its brevity, so here it is in toto: From the half-light...
• The Rule of Simplification: reducing all data to a simple confrontation between ‘Good and Bad’, ‘Friend and Foe’. • The Rule of Disfiguration: discrediting the opposition by crude smears and parodies. • The...
From the article: “In all works of science fiction, there are ten hidden assumptions regarding alien races. None of these assumptions is a necessity. None of them makes immanent or inevitable sense. Yet, when we read a sci-fi novel or watch a sci-fi...
From the website: “Vanishing Georgia comprises nearly 18,000 photographs. Ranging from daguerreotypes to Kodachrome prints, the images span over 100 years of Georgia history. The broad subject matter of these photographs, shot by both amateurs...
When you think of boxing, what famous names immediately jump to mind? Muhammad Ali? Check. Rocky Marciano? Sure. Oscar Wilde? Eh, not so much. But the sweet science and famous 19th century aesthete do have something of a historical — and quite unhappy...
Reading List:
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Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?
James Shapiro
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Washington: A Life
Ron Chernow
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Nixonland
Rick Perlstein
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The Book of Dead Philosophers
Simon Critchley
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American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Martin Sherwin & Kai Bird