Category Archives: Reading

About the character Milgrim in Zero History Reading, his therapist had suggested, had likely been his first drug. William Gibson is very crafty here. The reader is of course reading while absorbing this information about addiction. Of course, if one … Continue reading →

The authors in an ironic twist name the chapter where this report on the aftermath of the sole encounter between Karl Popper and Ludwig Wittgenstein “Clearing Up the Muddle”, ironic because they strategically position the occupation of identifying muddles by … Continue reading →

Oracular exhortation by Michael Joyce. We can re-embody reading if we see that the network is ours to inhabit. There are no technologies without humanities; tools are human structures and modalities. Notes Toward an Unwritten Non-Linear Electronic Text, “The Ends … Continue reading →

This set of lines is from a course description “Economies and Ecstasies: Routes Through Recent Critical Theory” Reading takes you places. Reading is a means of transformation. Reading is a means of preservation. Reading brings places to you. Reading places … Continue reading →

I adore Neil Bartlett’s resourcefulness in postulating three types of history of interest to gay men. The first telling of the story ends with the “I” assuming a coherent contemporary identity; the second with “we” arriving at a coherent contemporary … Continue reading →

Passionate engagement is always wonderful to witness. It borders on obsession. […] as I painstakingly made my way through the manuscripts of her early notes and writings, I saw something else. A picture of Stein’s writing as a record of … Continue reading →