君子不器
Barth Meets Borges in the Funhouse “It was about this time when I carne across the writings of the great Argentine Jorge Luis Borges, whose temper was so wedded to the short story form, that like Chekhov, he never wrote a novel, and whose unorthodox brilliance transformed the short story form. Writers Iearn from the…
The Public-Private Fusion
gameraboy1: “Misfit”Science-Fiction Plus, December 1953Cover by Frank R Paul.
@: 學校裡一半是越南混血兒，但推的永遠是「英語日」，為何不請媽媽們來個「每週一句越南語」呢？
Dziga Vertov: Wild Man of Soviet Montage Dziga Vertov is currently the subject of an extensive retrospective at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. This includes a symposium on the great Russian director’s work, featuring scholar…
It’s no secret, I’m working on another Thomas Pynchon paper and it has to do with entropy as a trope for anxieties about modernism. “Thomas Pynchon, Newton’s Second Law, and Entropy” came up in my googles and I’m posting it here for future reference. If you’re interested, this post is the place to begin; followed…
No relation to the minotaur apparently, but literally a “bull with five horns” from Frankish mythology…I’m not 100% sure how/why I came across the fabled beast in my browsing but it definitely had something to do with research on evil Merovingian queens (one of which is pregnant in this illustration):