You are teaching an elementary Latin course using the so-called “Reading Method”. You gather your class (of between 6-10 students) on the floor in a small room and brief them on whether they want to participate in this “ordeal”. If they agree, the students enter the classroom one at a time. The walls and floors […]
[Below is a text I have written for the catalogue for the 2017 OSU MFA thesis show. It is a sequel to a previous Minus Plato post, which you can read here. Congratulations to all the graduating artists: Allison Rose Craver, Tess Elliot, Nick Fagan, sarah goetz, Jessie Horning, Emma Kindall, Yuanyuan Lu, Sean R. […]
I am writing today in solidarity with everyone marching and fighting for bread and roses on this May Day. As a minor, Minus Plato protest, this post will highlight how recourse to a non-Christian mythic world aligns with feminist collective action. Floating golden triangles, bird-headed creatures and the sun landing on earth – these are just some […]
I am still not really up to discussing my confrontation with the gun-wielding ‘educators’ on campus yesterday. Sure there have been a few reports of the interaction in local media and friends have told me that I was on the news last night, but for the purposes of this post I am still processing the […]