Category Archives: essays
Virtues of Patience : The Opening Within the Grid, by Zachary Ritter
An essay by Zachary Ritter, thinking through the painting “Patience” and offering a view of connection to points of social and political resonance. Ritter blogs at separationintheevening.tumblr.com
Virtues of Patience : The Opening Within the Grid, by Zachary Ritter
An essay by Zachary Ritter, thinking through the painting “Patience” and offering a view of connection to points of social and political resonance. Ritter blogs at separationintheevening.tumblr.com
Art, Trauma & the Beyond of Being
An essay on Bracha Ettinger, David Foster Wallace, Gerhard Richter, & Anselm Kiefer.
Two videos: Ettinger at EGS and John Walsh at Yale on History Painting.
Art, Trauma & the Beyond of Being
An essay on Bracha Ettinger, David Foster Wallace, Gerhard Richter, & Anselm Kiefer.
Two videos: Ettinger at EGS and John Walsh at Yale on History Painting.
Maggie Nelson – Bluets
Two excerpts from Maggie Nelson’s book Bluets, a book on the color Blue – 52. Try, if you can, not to talk as if colors emanated from a single physical phenomenon. Keep in mind the effects of all the various surfaces,
Maggie Nelson – Bluets
Two excerpts from Maggie Nelson’s book Bluets, a book on the color Blue – 52. Try, if you can, not to talk as if colors emanated from a single physical phenomenon. Keep in mind the effects of all the various surfaces,
Adrienne Rich – A Human Eye
“Wherever I turn these days, I’m looking, as from the corner of my eye, for a certain kind of poetry whose balance of dread and beauty is equal to the chaotic negations that pursue us. Amid profiteering language, commoditizing of
Adrienne Rich – A Human Eye
“Wherever I turn these days, I’m looking, as from the corner of my eye, for a certain kind of poetry whose balance of dread and beauty is equal to the chaotic negations that pursue us. Amid profiteering language, commoditizing of
David Foster Wallace on Kafka
“the horrific struggle to establish a human self results in a self whose humanity is inseparable from that horrific struggle. That our endless and impossible journey toward home is in fact our home.” – David Foster Wallace, Some Remarks on Kafka’s
David Foster Wallace on Kafka
“the horrific struggle to establish a human self results in a self whose humanity is inseparable from that horrific struggle. That our endless and impossible journey toward home is in fact our home.” – David Foster Wallace, Some Remarks on Kafka’s
Adrienne Rich – Notebooks on Poetry and Politics
What is political activisim anyway? It’s something both prepared for and spontaneous – like making poetry. When we do and think and feel certain things privately and in secret, even when thousands of people are doing, thinking, whispering these things
Adrienne Rich – Notebooks on Poetry and Politics
What is political activisim anyway? It’s something both prepared for and spontaneous – like making poetry. When we do and think and feel certain things privately and in secret, even when thousands of people are doing, thinking, whispering these things
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