Hey Narcissus!

28th October 2021The Library of the FutureArt in America, Gordon Bennett, Hiwa K, Indigo Gonzales, Julie Nagam, PostcommodityMinus Plato

there is no linear history only strategic remembering – Postcommodity He is all out of joint with himself today, his world has been shaken, so I can’t have him type too much here (he may explode!). Nostalgic, time-travelling tales take their toll on his fragile, settler mind, especially when it comes to the bog of […]

Visions of Our Elders: Anchises’ Roman Empire versus Postcommodity’s Future Majority

11th October 2017Minus Plato TodayAnchises, Art in America, Empire, Future majority, Postcommodity, Virgil AeneidMinus Plato

As I sit here on the Oval of the Ohio State campus after a day of teaching, I am thinking about a moment in Book 6 of Virgil’s Aeneid. During his visit to the Underworld, Aeneas hears of the future heroes of Rome from the shade of his father Anchises. He also learns of the […]