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Let us count the ways … One of the things I have wanted to do in both of my books is to treat gay male relationships – whether partnered or promiscuous, durable or transient – as what they are: models … Continue reading →

Steven Price Lampedusa He still wished his life might resemble a novel. He was still young enough for that. He had wanted, he thought now, not only for a purpose, but most especially for a shape that might manifest itself; … Continue reading →

Matthew B. Crawford The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction Rethreading some passages in a different order so as to bring out the future-directed topos. On dialectic (p. 210) [T]his orientation toward the … Continue reading →

Sometime, oh sometimes, I have to admit loving the thrust and parry found in the reviews. Witnessing courteous delivery of comeuppance appeals to a sense of justice. Where language is concerned, Sokal and Bricmont, bigots to the last, lose the … Continue reading →

Dear X Your analogy of the exchanged glasses offering a different view has inspired me to elaborate. I begin with the observation that the embodied I is reflected in the imagined you. We come to speech via a model of … Continue reading →

Shades of Octavia Butler Xenogenesis and the Oankali Bethany Nowviskie “Capacity and Care” And some of these re-framings hinge on metaphors that seem particularly well-suited to our current scene: ways, for instance, in which we might begin to position culture … Continue reading →

Shoshana Zuboff The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power [525 pages plus notes] It is a whopper and for most of the book it is a relentless description of power … Continue reading →