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 […]
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 […]
Tomorrow is the last day of documenta 14, the exhibition that split itself between Athens and Kassel. To mark the closure of this unique experiment, e-flux has published a joint statement by many of the artists who participated. What struck me about this statement was the way in which the living artists emphasized the significance […]