Review: ‘The Fall’ by Henry Reece
Henry Reece’s The Fall: The Last Days of the English Republic points out the way stations whereby British history could have swerved the Restoration…
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Climate Rhetoric & the Marketplace of Rationalizations
Our fate hangs on a hot war of words. But influential language hides the shape and scope of the political and resource battles being fought.…
Psychopolitics of AI: From Fetishism to Brutalism
AI is everywhere: from smart home devices to algorithm-driven content recommendation systems; from biometric security measures to online shopping plat…
The Federal Reserve & the White House Don’t See Eye-to-Eye
Our economic situation cannot solely be blamed on the supply and demand repercussions of Covid-19, the Russo-Ukrainian War, China, heightened corporate greed, or the government’s…
Free-Standing Sculptures with Weight and Meaning: A Conversation with David Shields
I love dialogic books and gestures: from Socrates and Plato in The Republic to Rob Bryon and Steve Coogan in The Trip. I’ve read as many of these bo…
Icons, Political Aesthetics, the Drag Last Supper, and Trump’s Fist
July 2024 brought us inescapable examples of the renewed power of pictures. Images of Trump rising up, fist raised, on the 13th after being shot…