Category Think Piece
By Contributing Editor Nuala F. Caomhánach The tale about gag knuckles, taz-two, hairpin, ribbons, and treble clef is quite elusive. Although they sound more like nicknames of a 1920’s bootlegging gang (at least to me) they are the formal… Continue Reading →
By guest contributor Jonathan Potter Reviewing the 1842 Royal Academy of Arts exhibition, the art critic John Eagles wrote of J. M. W. Turner’s paintings: They are like the “Dissolving Views,” which, when one subject is melting into another, and… Continue Reading →
By guest contributor Christopher Porzenheim Even the smallest display of virtuous conduct immediately inspires us. Simultaneously we: admire the deed, desire to imitate it, and seek to emulate the character of the doer. […] Excellence is a practical stimulus. As… Continue Reading →
By guest contributor Jake Newcomb With the publication of Rhythm and Noise: An Aesthetics of Rock, philosopher Theodore Gracyk made the first breach into a modern ontology of rock music in 1996. Gracyk’s ontology postulated the idea that rock music… Continue Reading →
By Contributing Editor Pranav Kumar Jain During a particularly bleak week in the winter of 2013, I picked up a copy of Eric Hobsbawm’s modestly titled autobiography Interesting Times: A Twentieth-Century Life (2002), perhaps under the (largely correct) impression that the… Continue Reading →
By Editor Spencer J. Weinreich How the mightily Protestant have fallen. Almost five hundred years after Geneva deposed its (absentee) bishop and declared for the Reformation, there are nearly three Catholics and two agnostics/atheists for every Protestant Genevan. This, the… Continue Reading →
by guest contributor Audrey Borowski In his novel The Year 2440 published in 1770, the French homme de lettres Louis-Sebastien Mercier (1740-1814) evokes an idealized Paris in the twenty-fifth century. In it, Paris has been rebuilt on a scientific plan,… Continue Reading →
By Editor Spencer J Weinreich I hasten to assure the reader that Bloodflower’s Melancholia is not contagious. It is not fatal. It is not, in fact, real. It is the creation of British novelist Tamar Yellin, her contribution to The… Continue Reading →
