Almost anything can be put into a work of art, which is the artist’s problem, and almost anything can be got out of it, which is the critic’s.
Nov 082022
Nov 072022
Experts have replaced adults.
Nov 042022
Footnote Zero, n. The original source of a dubious, often provably false, occasionally absurd claim repeated in numerous scholarly works.
Nov 032022
Every society is ruled by its high-status beliefs; if you don’t like them, your only recourse is to lower their status.
Nov 022022
Tenure, like many privileges, is granted on the implied condition that it never be exercised.
Nov 012022
Whatever everyone is on about you want nothing to do with.
Oct 312022
Automated spell-check is an object lesson in tail risk: it reduces the number of errors, but by attempting to correct them with actual words, renders each a potential catastrophe.
Oct 282022
Language becomes hackneyed by always being placed in the same sterile surroundings, not by any fault of its own. Dead phrases can be revivified by bashing them against each other in a novel way, like rubbing sticks together to make a fire.
Oct 272022
What is worth reading is worth reading esoterically.
Oct 262022
No matter how the world appears to be improving, it always feels like it’s falling apart.