The future is going nowhere without us: Minus Plato Mementos from the Journey Back

In our current state of governmental chaos, I hark back to a surprisingly overlooked statement by President Trump’s White House physician, Dr. Ronny Jackson. After completing his medical assessment of Trump, Jackson stated, and I paraphrase, that Trump was highly unusual in that each day he begins anew, unfettered by memory or attention to consequences of previous actions. Jackson seemed to view this as a positive operational trait. Hence, memory of previous experiences and consequences does not inform Trump’s behavior. He starts anew each day, operating from grandiosity and ignorance and his own warped reality. So after reading that “Trump operates on a tornado of impulses,” I think it’s time to declare this man unfit for the office of president and remove him before he impulsively starts World War III.

– Lucia Leone Sleight, LCSW-R

Chapter 1: Prologue

Sept 3 

It felt like the forewarned journey back

Chapter 2: Mourning Diary

Aug 26

Such was the setting where Caesar commanded

Chapter 3: On Classicism’s Ruins

Sept 15

Did we really need to invent fathers for ourselves to frame our own work?

Sept 16 

tensions and hypocrisies of an imperialist partial-democracy based on slave labor and exclusion?

Chapter 4: Moving White Bodies

Aug 30 

 just how tragically close we still are to that history and its racist, hateful images

Aug 31 

You can start here by coloring

Sept 1 

This will mean more to some of you than others

 

Chapter 5: Media/Medea/Medya

Aug 28 

a unique model of mythmaking that offers the redemptive circulation of allegory through design

Sept 2  

free it from its fetters, and stir it from its place

 

Chapter 6: Myths and Other Peccadilloes

Sept 12  

the reference to the myth of Medusa in the text just for now (and then)…some notes on time and event, questions of performance art and its documentation in photographic and digital media (in the opening section ‘in the event’)

Sept 13   

“Medusa’s lair is probably my mother’s hair salon.”

Sept 14

moralizing reaction to women in the artist’s life and their image in popular culture

Chapter 7: Where Went Ohio

Aug 27 

in that moment it is said that the earth opened

 

Chapter 8: Escape to Athens

Sept 17 

one way for us to move forward is to continue to look to Athens and projects that are continuing, such as the Victoria Square Project and C.A.S.A’s To the Future Public.

Chapter 9: On the World

Sept 4  

Opening her eyes to the future

Chapter 10: Serial Collaborations

Aug 29

The public turns from spectator to intimate reader.

Chapter 11: Epilogue

Sept 5

The bewildering, intricate maze

         Sept 6           

hair got dishevelled, breast was aheave, heart beating wilder and wilder

Sept 7 

seemed for so long the unreachable

Sept 8  

But whatever disasters befall, do not flinch.

Sept 9  

By trusting and tuning the strings of his Thracian lyre

Sept 10

understand what else you must do

Sept 11 

Just enough to live

 

 

 

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