Our unfortunate times thus compel me, once again, to write in a new way. Some elements will be intentionally omitted; and the plan will have to remain rather unclear. Readers will encounter certain decoys, like the very hallmark of the era.
Guy Debord, Comments on the Society of the Spectacle
- WINTER | SPRING 2025I The conclusion is clear: before the time of the Maccabees there was no canon of sacred books; the books we now have were selected from many others by the Pharisees of the second temple, who also instituted the formulas for prayers, and these books were accepted only because they decided to accept them. The so-called Great Synagogue didn’t begin until after Asia was conquered by the Macedonians. And the opinion of Maimonides and others that this council was presided over by Ezra,… Read more: WINTER | SPRING 2025
- SPRING | SUMMER 2024I TODAY IT IS HARD TO FORM AN EVEN PARTLY adequate idea of the extent of the devastation suffered by the cities of Germany in the last years of the Second World War, still harder to think about the horrors involved in that devastation. It is true that the strategic bombing surveys published by the Allies, together with the records of the Federal German Statistics Office and other official sources, show that the Royal Air Force alone dropped a million… Read more: SPRING | SUMMER 2024
- FALL | WINTER 2023I However paradoxical it may seem, I’d venture to suggest that our age threatens one day to appear in the history of human culture, as marked by the most dramatic and difficult trial of all. The discovery of and training in the meaning of the simplest acts of existence, seeing, listening, speaking, reading, the acts which relate men, to their works, and to those works thrown in their faces, their absence of works. Louis Althusser, Reading Capital II Although the… Read more: FALL | WINTER 2023