June 5, 2017
Touchscreen Headstone: Speculations on the Digital Afterlife
“Eterni.me wants to rely on the real substance of twenty-first-century life: online activity. There are other companies that offer related services: Legacy Locker and Entrustnet allow users to nominate an […]
January 8, 2015
A Physiology of Style: Asthma, Proust, Pharoahe Monch
“This asthma became part of his art—if indeed his art did not create it. Proust’s syntax rhythmically and stop by step reproduces his fear of suffocating. And his ironic, philosophical, […]
November 26, 2010
Difficult Bodies: Duriel E. Harris’s Amnesiac
I’ve been reading Duriel E. Harris’s Amnesiac these last few weeks. And maybe because I’m recovering from a bout of some flu-like illness, when I returned to the book this […]