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No one really understands how anything works — some basic principles are recognized and those we refer to as facts. But how it all holds together, or even the nature of the adhesives themselves, remains as much a mystery today as they were 100 or 1,000 or 5,000 years ago.
The truth is, we can explain how things work, but are at a loss to explain why they work. If we're going to be honest with one another, let's agree that we are no more prepared to offer any satisfying explanation than our naked ancestors, who squatted in terror at the clap of thunder. Our solution to this uncomfortable truth is to tell each other stories. Here are some stories I've told.
Les Flâneuses Inadvertentes: Meaningful Glances, Sure Steps in Varda and Godard
Read MorePhotographing The End: The Skyline As Necropolis
Life is nothing but instability and disequilibrium…a tumult, continuously on the verge of explosion. —Georges Bataille
Read MoreTime Is Not On Our Side
We do not work in stone although we may use stones to make a point.
Read MoreContent To Flesh Out "Flesh"
Read MoreThe Infinite Pain Caused By An Infinitesimal Distance
Tear sheets were delicate, and paper ads, torn from magazines or cut from newspapers, were prey to sharp points, ink stains, unwashed hands, and coffee rings.
Read MoreIdeas First. Words Follow.
Ideas possess a peculiar magic.
Read MoreI Surrender To The Privileging Of Digital Media
I will concede here and now the privileging of digital images over the physical representation of ideas, desires and ambitions.
Read MoreShelf Life: The Fate of a Personal Library
What is it that compels some of us to love books? What is it exactly we love and how do we demonstrate our affection?
Read MoreBerlin Symphony: Fantasia or Wish Fulfillment
A cinematic fantasia? A salute to modernity? A hyper-kinetic montage of Berlin life, circa 1927?
Read MoreLa Dolce Vita: Modern by Design
Read MoreUninhabited
I will argue in this paper that the correspondence between the idea of New York and the actual city of New York has grown increasingly tenuous.
Read MoreTHE APPEAL OF HORROR
Horror films edify, satisfy and entertain; they also obscure, repulse and distract.
Read MoreGorbachev in Disneyland
A kind of unintentional parody hovers over everything, a tactical simulation, a consummate aesthetic enjoyment, is attached to the indefinable play of reading and the rules of the game.
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