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

30th April 2018Minus Plato Return Reform Refresh, No Philosopher King Draft, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

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 […]

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The Journey Back through documenta 14

3rd September 2017documenta 14, Minus Plato Today, , , , , , , ,

I have foreseen and foresuffered all – Aeneas in Seamus Heaney’s “The Golden Bough” (Virgil’s Aeneid 6, 98-148) from Seeing Things I might have been a wise king setting out Under the Christmas lights – except that It felt like the forewarned journey back Into the heartland of the ordinary. – Philip Larkin in Seamus […]

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