Educating the Silicon Citizen: Literature, Philosophy, and the Case for Slow Tech
Presumably, it has never been a good time for the Humanities.
ethics
The Revenge of the Middle Class
In a recent NPR piece TV critic Eric Deggans cites shows like "Hell on Wheels," Sons of Anarchy," "Dexter," and "Breaking Bad" as evidence of a proliferations of television programs featuring "characters the audience likes and wants to see succeed, even though they act an awful lot like villains.
Reading and Responsibility
Derek Attridge is Leverhu
Translation in Wartime
“Translation looks two ways.
The Revolution will be Advertised: brief thought on political art
I won't pretend like I trust or respect political art. I think it's inherently suspect. Which is not to say that art cannot have a powerful galvanizing effect on politics, or that it cannot be great art.
Deep thoughts about the election (before & after)
I have an idealistic view of what it is to have a career. I like to imagine that people are careful about choosing a life's work. I like to think that pointless activities -- while key to recreation -- are banished from the world of work. Unfortunately there is a sharp rebuke to this idea. In a word: Politics.
Some quick thoughts on the death of the record as object
I can attest to the fact that it's rough out there for recorded music. As some of you may know, I founded and run a record label. As of about six months ago I was running another one as well. And about two months before that I was still lending a hand on a third label.
Public utterings from two of my favorite "recluses": Crass & Mary Margaret O’Hara
In the overmediated age we find ourselves in, I have a kind of kneejerk negative reaction to the entire notion of the recluse.
The Purposeless Life of Flowers
« Pourquoi donc y a-t-il des fleurs ? » Pourquoi ? Pour rien. Parce que. La beauté des fleurs est là, c’est tout. Pour rien. Et sûrement pas pour nous. Mais voilà : nous y sommes sensibles, et cela, ce n’est pas rien.
The Hand of God: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Law in the Beautiful Game
If you help your team win a match by deliberately breaking the rules, as Luis Suárez did last week, are you a hero or a cheat? I think a cheat, but let me say why.