“Modernism”
David Antin’s wonderful remark about modernism has been coming back to me a lot lately: “From the modernism you want, you get the postmodernism you deserve”. I’m guessing he said it sometime in the 1970s...
Category: history
Mysterious Minoan: Crete and Linear A
Among the many memories of a recent trip to Crete are two different scripts that were developed there. Linear B is an early form of Greek, but Linear A, which seems to use the same...
Educated and Groundless
I finished reading Educated yesterday, Tara Westover’s memoir of her survivalist Mormon upbringing and subsequent separation from it. By her account, the separation was achieved by means of formal education. Only once in the book...
Family Lexicon
Before I learned of Ginzburg’s book, I used the phrase “family lexicon”(incorrectly, I think in retrospect) as the domain name for a website of family photographs. The project crashed and burned for the best...
The Devil and Time
The History of the Devil is the title of the second of three books Flusser wrote when he lived in Brazil (1940 – 1970), recently translated from Portuguese into English by Rodrigo Maltez Novaes...
Drawing and magic
I did the second Mediascape lecture today–the title was drawing, although the idea was broader–prehistoric media, that is, media before writing. It was meant to include carving, modelling — probably “performance” (some kinds). But...