A Funeral for Bruno Latour
What makes this so difficult is that time has a way of eroding the power of words.
Autocomplete
Posted on November 23, 2022
in THR Web Features
Image: Jimmy Chan. Via Pexels.
We all must adapt to a new textual culture made by GPT-3.
Hunting the White Goddess
Posted on November 18, 2022
in THR Web Features
Image: Oberon, Titania and Puck with Fairies Dancing, ca. 1786. William Blake.
It seems that neo-paganism is attractive in part because it offers an identity to those who have rejected postmodern, deracinated versions of Christianity.
Pretending to Destroy Art to Save the World
by
Chiraag Shah
Posted on November 9, 2022
in THR Web Features
Image: Just Stop Oil activists throw tomato soup at Van Gogh’s Sunflowers, National Gallery, London, October 2022.
What we are seeing, then, is a fictional spectacle—a pseudo-iconoclastic event.
Frightschrift: Some Scary Stories for Halloween
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Twenty Five Years After Imagined Worlds, What World Are We Living In?
Posted on October 26, 2022
in THR Web Features
Image: Microsoft CEO Bill Gates speaks on a television above a Windows 95 display at a store in Vienna, Virginia.
The world circa 2000 was not Napoleonic.
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