Myths over History: the Strange Story of 21st Century Traditionalism on the Far Right
Geopolitics as a field is catnip for Traditionalists and others attracted by the high-end and fatuous.
Impossible Demand: Utopic Poetry
Reading poetry has felt like a ridiculous use of my time and a necessary one.
Mind Melding Across the Genre Divide
To choose the “we” narrator is inherently political. The collectively narrated novel is fairly new—to literary realism, anyway.
Most of the time we become through ambivalence—not caring either way—in an ill-fitting place of unfulfilled desire. Essays on ambivalence and forgetting.
A generation of highly original thinkers whose commitment to their work was not limited to the fickle favors of the research and education sector. An all-too-brief introduction.
A Cultural History of the Cranked Snare Drum
The snare sound was designed to obliterate, but on the other side of each strike was a celestial overtone — a halo that hung above the chaos.
The statue was renamed, or named twice: the Dionysus-Sardanapalus. Each name is a mirror of itself and the opposite. The statue embodies the unstable relationship between history, narrative, and artifact.
To write fan-fiction is to re-write, to bend time, to insert oneself into a queer narrative that is both already-impossible and newly-possible through the projection of desire onto fictional proxies.
Our thoughts about the mind or our minds themselves? Popular science at the edge of meaning.
99 River Street – both the film and the critical reaction to it – serves to encapsulate the various strategies that we’ve seen deployed in the backlash to the Me Too movement – from denial to willed blindness to mockery.