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6 Jun 2025

On Board the Ship of Fools

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 Fig. 1 Woodcut illustration  by Albrecht Dürer  for Sebastian Brandt's   Das Narrenschiff  (1494)     Fig. 2 Photo by Fabrizio Villa of...
18 May 2025

Sein zum Tode: Notes on the Case of Ellen West and the Work of Ludwig Binswanger

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Ellen West (1888-1921) [1]   'She looked in death as she had never looked in life; calm, happy, and peaceful.'   I.    I've bee...
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6 May 2025

Looking, Talking, and Thinking About Art with David Salle (Part 3)

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David Salle working in his studio  photographed by Frenel Morris (2023)   " Modern art has always hungered for philosophical, theoretic...
8 Mar 2025

Know Thyself: A Reflection

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Ai Weiwei: Know Thyself (2022)  Lego bricks 192.5 x 192.5 cm [a]     I.    Whenever I come across the ancient Greek injunction know thyself...
4 Mar 2025

Who Is Stephen Alexander? A Guest Post by Sasha Thanassa

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Stephen Alexander  A Non-Selfie Selfie (2025)    And how do you see yourself when looking in the bathroom mirror  through someone else...
2 Mar 2025

Révéroni de Saint-Cyr: Modern Perversity and Old School Pessimism

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Illustration for Pauliska ou la Perversité moderne (1798)    by Jacques-Antoine Révéroni de Saint-Cyr [1]   "L'amour est une rage...
27 Feb 2025

Writing So As Not to Die

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    One of the questions I'm often asked is: Why write?   Well, in part, it's because, like Kafka, I think a non-writing writer risk...
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20 Feb 2025

On Torpedo the Ark as a Form of Digital Hypomnema and Honey Making

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Stephen Alexander: Hypomnema (2025)     I.    Is blogging really so different from the ancient Greek practice of providing a written commen...