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Star Trek Beyond Captain James T. Kirk: [epilogue] Space: the final frontier. Commander Spock: These are the voyages of the starship… Montgomery ‘Scotty’ Scott: …Enterprise. Its continuing mission… Doctor ‘Bones’ McCoy: …to explore strange new worlds… Sulu: …to seek out … Continue reading →

David Mitchell: What my son’s autism has taught me First up, is that we stop assuming a communicative impairment denotes a cognitive one. Let’s be wary of assuming that behind autism’s speechlessness lies nothing, or nothing to speak of. Instead, … Continue reading →

Elizabeth McLean The Swallows Uncaged Ngọc climbed the pole to the thatched roof, hauling her work with her — a bin of rattan splints, which she whittled with her awl until they were thin enough to weave into baskets and … Continue reading →

From the directions to the butler Never let the candles burn too low, but give them as a lawful perquisite to your friend the cook, to increase her kitchen-stuff, or if this not be allowed in your house, give them … Continue reading →

The marker here is ‘attention’ which is marshalled by an implicit (and perhaps dubious) equation (more attention = better quality). This is abandoned in the second example with its stress on ‘convenience’. There must be a sweet spot between attention … Continue reading →

The Politics of Aesthetics Jacques Rancière translated by Gabriel Rockhill. The ‘fictionality’ specific to the aesthetic age is consequently distributed between two poles: the potential of meaning inherent in everything silent and the proliferation of modes of speech and levels … Continue reading →

You said, “He doesn’t need to ask questions.” He was a senior manager going into a facilitated session with a number of experts in an area that he is not an expert in. So I pondered what you said and … Continue reading →

Like a master class in Bourdieu’s Distinction Gilbert, who noted the contrast with the true Washington style, in which evening clothes were as dowdy as the equivalent daytime dress, either because the important people weren’t rich or were politically motivated … Continue reading →

John Edgar Wideman. Hiding Place. The character misses the trolley. Forced to walk he turns the event into an aesthetic moment. Nothing for it now but to walk. He had to walk that night and in the darkness over his … Continue reading →