Tag Archives: Lucretius

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

15th September 2017Minus Plato TodayBrooklyn Rail, Cindy Sherman, Joyce Burstein, Lucretius, Thomas McEvilleyMinus Plato

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 […]

Is A Woven Thing: Sarah Charlesworth’s “Text”, 1994

26th May 2017Dave Hickey, David Sedley, Francis Ponge, Frank O'Hara, Lucretius, Minus Plato Today, Sarah CharlesworthDave Hickey, David Sedley, Francis Ponge, Frank O'Hara, Lucretius, Sarah CharlesworthMinus Plato

To be idiomatic in a vacuum is a shining thing – Frank O’Hara What am I actually doing as I move my fingers over these computer keys from which, over the years, the letters have been worn away? And where, exactly, am I doing it? Is all of this transpiring in my head? In […]

The Public Life of Things: Reading Lucretius with João Maria Gusmão + Pedro Paiva

10th January 2017João Maria Gusmão + Pedro Paiva, Lucretius, Minus Plato TodayJoão Maria Gusmão + Pedro Paiva, LucretiusMinus Plato