A component of the work of both Daniel G. Andújar and Martha Rosler discussed in our last two posts that seems to be missing from both Group Material’s Democracy and the call for papers in the panel “Democratising Classics”, is their use of humor to reveal the problems with democratic institutions, especially at the level […]
We have been mulling over the following sentence from the call for papers of the “Democratising Classics” panel: Who was and is tasked with the translation of ancient works, with teaching others about classical antiquity, and with shaping the future of the subject? While there is a great deal to unpack here, today we want […]
After a week’s break, following our wrapping up of ‘Minus Plato Return Reform Refresh’ and the first draft of our forthcoming book No Philosopher King: An Ancient Guide to Art and Life under Trump, we are now ready to dive into the next project. It is called Our Ancient Group Material and it comprises our […]
Dear Diosa and Magistra, We have been thinking about our conversations today and wanted to write to you both directly (well, as directly as a blog post written by a one-person-collective to the sometime personas of an artist and a classicist can be!). As this phase of Minus Plato (“Minus Plato Return, Reform, Refresh”) comes […]
Ch. 1: Prologue 1.1: Who are ‘we’? 1.2: Guides and Handbooks November 1 1.3: Nature of Project October 17 Ch. 2: Mourning Diary 2.1: First Days 2.2: The Everyday 2.3: Anniversaries/Celebrations/Obituaries October 12 2.4: Events Ch. 3: On Classicism’s Ruins 3.1: Classicism, Classicists and The Classical 3.2: Support Networks: Columns and References October 15 3.3: […]
Curious reader, you may be eager to know what was then said and done? (Apuleius Metamorphoses – adapted) Oct 1 We remember her words in our remake of Plato’s analogy of the Cave: I know that these shadows are the myths that have enthralled and educated generations in this place throughout the ages. I know […]
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 […]
A large black and silver volume caught his eye. He pulled it out with difficulty, because it was very heavy, and, balancing it on his knee, let it fall open. A piercing, bloodcurdling shriek split the silence — the book was screaming! Harry snapped it shut, but the shriek went on and on, one high, […]
Moving past our time-based posts so far this year, we were going to write about names and roles today. We were specifically intent on contrasting Trump’s infantile name-calling of ex-FBI Director James Comey (“Showboat” “Nut job”, “Slime ball”), with the latter’s focus, in his new book A Higher Loyalty and his recent interviews, not on names, […]
We are currently reading Amy Siskind’s brilliant snd terrifying book The List: A Week-By-Week Reckoning of Trump’s First Year which, along with her original website The Weekly List: This Is How Democracy Ends, is a vital reference work as we write No Philosopher King: An Ancient Guide to Art and Life under Trump. Reading Siskind’s book […]