In this fifth episode of Radio Show Me What Democracy Looks Like, we consider representations of censorship, freedom of the press and book bans in the visual culture of democracy, Marta Minujín The Parthenon of Books (1983/2017) and two competing forms of freedom. Censorship, Freedom of the Press, and Book Bans in Democratic Visual Culture Marta […]
Another day, another book. On and on and on. Look at this one! Turn to page 38. Feel the texture of the pages. Wait this reminds me of another book. One second while I reach for it. And on and on and on. One books leads to another, until there is a pile of books. […]
And, no, I’m not primarily thinking of the cast of the Victory of Samothrace in Ohio State University’s Thompson Library (although I’m open to hacking that space in the future!). Instead it is a whole other library (one in which material matters) that prompts me to have my librarian post this today and I’ll let […]
With these dispatches steadily accumulating, as the books move from shelf to shelf or from shelf to bag to car to office to floor, I think it is time to reveal something that I have been holding back until now. My haunting of Lucius Fletcher’s living library – yes, that is now the name I […]
Holiness is what is dear to the gods. Who said that? I dunno but it’s not helpful. Never mind, ignore it. Let’s check-in instead. So, how are you coping? Healthy and sane? My starting position (forced on each of us, black reader and white writer, by this writing and our society) were the sites of […]