Dangling Man
A brief encounter with kitsch and folk art in an excerpt from Saul Bellow’s (wonderful) 1944 evisceration of individual dislocation in wartime Chicago ‘Dangling Man’.
Dangling Man
A brief encounter with kitsch and folk art in an excerpt from Saul Bellow’s (wonderful) 1944 evisceration of individual dislocation in wartime Chicago ‘Dangling Man’.
Psychic
The beautiful Elizabeth once introduced me to a William Carlos Williams poem called January Morning, which begins: I have discovered that most of / the beauties of travel are due to / the strange hours we keep to see them…
Psychic
The beautiful Elizabeth once introduced me to a William Carlos Williams poem called January Morning, which begins: I have discovered that most of / the beauties of travel are due to / the strange hours we keep to see them…
Thoughts on constructionism
Tito Arecchi on ‘constructionism’, from his essay ‘Chaos and Complexity’ of 1989.
Thoughts on constructionism
Tito Arecchi on ‘constructionism’, from his essay ‘Chaos and Complexity’ of 1989.
Wren’s Addition
Hampton Court Palace is a startling example of how the decision to add to a historic building in a contemporary vernacular looks 300 years down the track.
Wren’s Addition
Hampton Court Palace is a startling example of how the decision to add to a historic building in a contemporary vernacular looks 300 years down the track.
The System of Objects
Consider a nondescript, light, foldable table or a bed without legs, frame or canopy – an absolute cipher of a bed, one might say: all such objects, with their ‘pure’ outlines, no longer resemble even what they are; they have
The System of Objects
Consider a nondescript, light, foldable table or a bed without legs, frame or canopy – an absolute cipher of a bed, one might say: all such objects, with their ‘pure’ outlines, no longer resemble even what they are; they have
Le virus de la pneumanie
This week’s Lens focuses on the reactionary and the ephemeral via an excerpt from C & P Fiell’s introduction to their fantastic monograph ‘Plastic Dreams: Synthetic Visions in Design’.
Le virus de la pneumanie
This week’s Lens focuses on the reactionary and the ephemeral via an excerpt from C & P Fiell’s introduction to their fantastic monograph ‘Plastic Dreams: Synthetic Visions in Design’.
