“It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born to, and then to learn something of the value of those limits.” –Greil Marcus For the past year I’ve had the privilege of working with Falcon Arrow; a Minnesota band based in Minneapolis. […]
“Like her second CD, When the Pawn … , the full title of which, at 90 words, appeared, to her pride, in the Guinness Book of World Records, this album’s title is a sort of proverb: The Idler Wheel Is Wiser / Than the Driver of the Screw / And Whipping Cords Will Serve You More / Than Ropes Will Ever Do. For […]
“Once the narration is recognized as arbitrary rather than logical, the viewer is free to ask why individual events within its structures are as they are. The viewer is no longer constrained by conventions of reading to find a meaning or theme within the work as the solution to a sort of puzzle, which has […]
Quite often I cover shop. Lazily browsing through rows upon rows, books with great designs entice me to take them off the shelf, peer into the rooms so eloquently promised. Before even attempting a grasp of Harkaway’s worlds, the front door sucked me in. I had no idea what I was in for. Joshua Joseph […]
There are ways of writing history. School book classical with feigned objectivity purporting to be conclusive; or with a subjectivity, with personality; as if a person were actually behind the words, as if a soul were buried in the legends on display. George Dyson has a voice behind him. With Turing’s Cathedral it’s clear he […]
