Today’s post is like that moment in Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape when Krapp eats a banana and, several minutes later, slips on the peel he left on the floor. But in place of Krapp, we want you to imagine Trump, and for the banana, a gun. Maybe Banksy can help us visualize this: Arming teachers, […]
Today in our Semina Seminar, a lunchtime meeting with MFAs and Classics PhDs before my seminar on Ancient Philosophical Handbooks: Lessons, Lives, Communities, we were talking about death – the death of the artist and the death of painting. Biographical traditions of ancient philosophers, especially Diogenes Laertius’ Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, often focus […]