The Megapolitan Flaneur: Part 3: Objects and Meaning
The Megapolitan Flâneur is a series of short travel essays. These essays will focus on my trip to Chicago – September 4 – 6, 2013 – and what I experienced. Neither chronology or… Continue reading
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Driftless Area Review Metapost
A general update on the business of the Driftless Area Review blog.
What I’m Reading 2012 and Other Business
What I’m Reading 2012 Overview: I’m currently reading five books. Each poses certain challenges (in some cases, self-imposed challenges) to me as a reader, reviewer, critic, historian, and aesthete. While New Year’s Resolutions… Continue reading
Essays on Capital, First Series: Essay One
Essay 1: Capital and the historical moment From commodities to citizens. O garment not golden but gilded, O garden where all men may dwell, O tower not of ivory, but builded By hands… Continue reading
Essays on Capital, First Series: Essay Number Zero
By way of an introduction … “It is simply misleading and vulgar to say of Marx, as Edmund Wilson in To the Finland Station and many others have done, that he was really… Continue reading