From Valerie Hansen’s The Silk Road
君子不器
From Valerie Hansen’s The Silk Road
LENIN’S TOMB: Dropping like bees Yep…the capitalocene But it brings us to this. Capitalism’s “law of value” was always “a law of Cheap Nature”. And yet, of course, cheap nature was always a fiction. “Abstract social nature” organises its exploitation so that its costs are externalised, driven outside the circuit of production: but they are…
No one I know who studies literature for a living (quite a few people) does so because they really love reading and writing about novels, poetry, etc. This has been my sneaking suspension for the past 15 years in this profession and it seriously bums me out sometimes. I have yet to hear a local…
Kammerzellhüs (Strasbourg) before 1900
Zoroastrians crossing to the next world, from Valerie Hansen’s The Silk Road
The eight phases of The Song of Roland in one picture, by Simon Marmion – Grandes Chroniques de France, St. Petersburg, Ms. Hermitage. fr. 88: (Niederl. Burgund, Mitte 15. Jh., Exemplar Philipps des Guten), folio. 154v