Out of the Carnage of America First: Prosthetic Origins and Mythic Foundations

29th January 2018Minus Plato Return Reform Refresh, No Philosophr King Draft, UncategorizedAdam Pendleton, America First, American Carnage, Frederick Jackson Turner, Handbooks, Hito Steyerl, João Maria Gusmão + Pedro Paiva, Jonathas de Andrade, Juliana Huxtable, Kerry James Marshall, Nadia Kaabi-Linke, Romare Bearden, Wallace Berman, William E. JonesMinus Plato

From January 2017 (“From this day forward, it’s only going to be America first, America first.”) to January 2018 (“America first, doesn’t mean America alone”), we have been suffering Trump’s monotonous solution meant to pivot from what he dubbed ‘this American carnage’ (aka anything prior to Trumptime). The doomsday phrase ‘American carnage’ sent journalists scurrying […]

The Good Lives of Jonathas de Andrade

13th January 2017Ancient Happiness, Jonathas de Andrade, Minus Plato Today, Wexner Center for the ArtsAncient Happiness, Jonathas de Andrade, The Box, Wexner Center for the ArtsMinus Plato

I just brought my class on ancient philosophical ideas of happiness and the good life to see the new film by Brazilian artist Jonathas de Andrade in The Box at the Wexner Center. The short, 7-minute film, O Caseiro (The Caretaker), is a split screen account of two very different lives and daily routines. On […]