Free-Standing Sculptures with Weight and Meaning: A Conversation with David Shields
I love dialogic books and gestures: from Socrates and Plato in The Republic to Rob Bryon and Steve Coogan in The Trip. I’ve read as many of these bo…
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In Praise of the Random Link Up
In a shared LinkedIn feed where all your spare time is driven towards a perfect union of a personal brand and its monetisation, making a friend where …
In Defense of Ambivalence: Neoliberalism & Politics in the Age of Ethical Enjoyment
The Student Innovation Center appears exactly as one would imagine it. The building’s slick, rectilinear design outfitted with translucent glass panels smacks of the sleek…
Art and Our Cult of the Self
A cult of the self shapes much of our lives. Its cardinal conviction is that the self is sacred. Via its often stealthy influence, self-worship…
Tripping and Politics
It screams regression too: you are prompted to disregard the difference between yourself and the product of an artist's work. you become identical wit…
Woke-Speak of Bosses at NPR and Academia Irks the Masses
By 2025, I assert, no one is going to talk the way NPR CEO Katherine Maher talks, ever again. No doubt the word ‘woke’ has…