Tag Archives: Joyce Burstein

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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There are worse things than velleities: To Joyce Burstein on Thomas McEvilley and Cindy Sherman

15th September 2017Minus Plato Today, , , ,

Dear Joyce, I know it has been a long time (some three years) and I hope this finds you well, if indeed it finds you. Even though I know that you engage with antiquity in your work, from The Epitaph Project to the Iliad piece you once showed me in your apartment, I realize that […]

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