Diotima’s Darling: Paul Chan, Plato & Erotic Fiction

14th September 2015Badlands Unlimited, erotic fiction, Hippias, Hippias Minor, Hippias Minor or the Art of Cunning, New Lovers, Paul Chan, PlatoMinus Plato

Artist and publisher Paul Chan was recently interviewed by 032c magazine about his recent book projects with his press Badlands Unlimited that include a series of erotic fiction written exclusively by women (New Lovers) and a radical new edition of a Platonic dialogue (Hippias Minor or the Art of Cunning). I know that I have […]

Breezy Euschēmosunē: Flailing Socrates, Upright Eudicus & Prickly Hippias

17th June 2015Breezies, Deste, Eudicus, Hippias, Hippias Minor, Hippias Minor or the Art of Cunning, Paul Chan, SocratesMinus Plato

SOCRATES But at this point I’m suffering an episode of brain fever, so to speak, and those who of their own free will go completely wrong in some way in fact seem to me to be more fitting persons than those who do so unwillingly. The blame for my present suffering I place on the […]