Ever on the lips of the right wing are excoriating words for the so-called “liberal elite,” those latté-swilling, Volvo-driving Hollywood producers, college professors, and Washington bureaucrats who supposedly run the lives of poor everyman U.S.A. Whenever I hear this list, the first thing I think is “Yeah, right.” Then I think “College professors?”
You see, [...]
Why the British are obsessed with class is fairly obvious. Why Americans are not is troublesome. Sure, we wrote about it in the ‘20s and ‘30s: Fitzgerald channeled the great undercurrent of angst that ran through that heady era of stock market boom, and Steinbeck during the Great Depression? How could he not? It’s hard [...]
from Special Correspondent T.S. deHaviland
Where the “developers” see “a whole lot of nothing” I see ecosystems – swaths of green space, native grasses, stands of Osage orange, cover for coyotes and foxes, pheasant and wild turkey, the hunting grounds for hawks.
I’ve been an enemy of urban sprawl since, as a child, I saw the metastasizing [...]
Now that Jacques Derrida is dead, what the hell am I going to write about?
NEVER FORGET.
Here is an excerpt from “Death of a Hermeneutic Phantom: Materialisation of the Sign in the Work of Peter Eisenman,” by art theorist Rosalind Krauss talking about Eisenman’s attempt to link formalism and linguistics into the architectural arena.
“What we have learned from Saussure,” writes Merleau-Ponty, “is that, taken singly, signs do not signify anything, and [...]
Why aren’t we more offended by the term “human resources”? Isn’t this the equivalent of being equaled to bauxite or raw rubber or oil?
Why can’t we be both employees and human beings?
As far as management is concerned, we are quite a bit less than bauxite or raw rubber or oil. If the price of resources [...]