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(Polity Press, 2023)     I.    Although Daniel Steuer's English translation of Byung-Chul Han's book Absence was only published las...

(Polity Press, 2024)     I.    The subtitle of Byung-Chul Han's new little book is In Praise of Inactivity [a] . But it's important...

Aphrodite's Girdle , contributed by Mary Metzer to The Museum of Fictional Literary Artifacts [1]     I.    The girdle has a long, lon...

B is for ...  Baudelaire, Bataille, Barthes, and Baudrillard     There are many French things that I love beginning with the letter B - from...

Photo: Mike Marsland / Getty Images I. Apart from being very beautiful and highly intelligent, Countdown's resident ma...

Untitled work by Seoul-based artist  Myeong Beom Kim  featured as part of a solo exhibition in Paris presented  by Galerie Paris-Bei...

Cover art for the single 'Melt!' by Siouxsie and the Banshees  (Polydor, 1982)  "Are you familiar with the fright...

Basic Books (2016) Ch. 1: Everywhere, Playgrounds For someone keen to live in the world and not inside his own head - an admir...

Heide Hatry III. The Truth of Masks I don't want to appear dim, but I'm not sure I understand this opening sentence from yo...

 ... and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me  so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart  was ...