Changing Times

Posted on July 20, 2021
Image: Via Wikimedia Commons

Once upon a time there was a publication that was doing all it could to tell a straight story and to listen to all sides.

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Who Killed Essentialism?

Posted on July 16, 2021
Image: Study B by Pedro Ribeiro Simões. Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Modern Collection, Lisbon, Portugal. Via Wikimedia Commons.

We seem to be unable to do without our essences.

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Writing a Life

Posted on June 29, 2021
Image: Bookstore mural in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Hermann Hesse at center; via Wikimedia Commons.

The question I want to ask is simply this: Is the writing of a Life a game that, in our current moment, can be played?

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Critical Theory and the Newest Left

Posted on June 25, 2021
Image: Mural of Theodore Adorno. Underground station Bockenheimer Warte, Frankfurt. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Corporations are not defanging a threatening ideology but welcoming it back home from a field trip.

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The Desk

Posted on June 24, 2021
Image: A poster from the 1950s science fiction adventure series Space Patrol.

These were places where I could imagine anything, be anybody. Space travel was new, fresh, a laboratory of possibility.

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