Literature
Two faces seen on my walk this morning:
- Proofreading & Endorsements
I just finished reading and correcting the proofs for my book The End of Airports. I like reading proofs: suddenly the amorphous mush of writing, rewriting, and abstract manuscript architecture snaps into place, and it becomes real?almost a book. Still...
- Morning Walk Photo Essay Ii
It was about a year ago that I posted my first morning walk photo essay; I figured today that it was time to post a second one. (I find myself telling students that things become so much more interesting when you do them multiple times?like reading,...
- On Videogames & Memories
I recently wrote an Amazon review of Ian Bogost's sprightly new book How to Do Things with Videogames. I want to extend that review here in order to think through some related things. This book's form makes it incredibly accessible and inviting:...
- Art And Commerce: A Lesson In Faking
A friend passed along a story about the artist JSG Boggs and his one-sided, hand-drawn dollars that he passes off as real money in stores?only to then sell the receipt, change, and whatever goods he bought as the ?art?. This would seem to function as...
- What Is A Tragic Hero?
The tragic hero is a man of noble stature. He is not an ordinary man, but a man with outstanding quality and greatness about him. His own destruction is for a greater cause or principle. Common characteristics of a tragic hero According to Aristotle:...
Literature
Faces of the Ordinary
Two faces seen on my walk this morning:
"The ordinary is a moving target. Not first something to make sense of, but a set of sensations that incite."?Kathleen Stewart, Ordinary Affects
"But always the face shows through these forms."
?Emmanuel Levinas, "Ethics as First Philosophy"
- Proofreading & Endorsements
I just finished reading and correcting the proofs for my book The End of Airports. I like reading proofs: suddenly the amorphous mush of writing, rewriting, and abstract manuscript architecture snaps into place, and it becomes real?almost a book. Still...
- Morning Walk Photo Essay Ii
It was about a year ago that I posted my first morning walk photo essay; I figured today that it was time to post a second one. (I find myself telling students that things become so much more interesting when you do them multiple times?like reading,...
- On Videogames & Memories
I recently wrote an Amazon review of Ian Bogost's sprightly new book How to Do Things with Videogames. I want to extend that review here in order to think through some related things. This book's form makes it incredibly accessible and inviting:...
- Art And Commerce: A Lesson In Faking
A friend passed along a story about the artist JSG Boggs and his one-sided, hand-drawn dollars that he passes off as real money in stores?only to then sell the receipt, change, and whatever goods he bought as the ?art?. This would seem to function as...
- What Is A Tragic Hero?
The tragic hero is a man of noble stature. He is not an ordinary man, but a man with outstanding quality and greatness about him. His own destruction is for a greater cause or principle. Common characteristics of a tragic hero According to Aristotle:...