The Uses of Artistic Extravagance

Posted on October 10, 2022
Image: Jean-Luc Godard and some of his film posters.

Jean-Luc Godard, like Nietzsche and Wittgenstein and Heidegger, is worth paying attention to even when we think his work is bad

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Saving Face

Posted on September 29, 2022
Image: THR illustration, Harold Gillies at center.

The face we present to the world is the primary signifier we possess.

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Reaching the Adjacent

Posted on August 17, 2022
Image: Shutterstock, Inc.

Are we willing to undertake the long, slow work of persuasion in a time of the politics of personal destruction?

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