Writings, Reviews, Cultural Criticism
My dad hired my son to scan all his slides, because nowadays no one ever sets up the projector and screen and bores the dinner guests to tears. Every so often I’d hear laughter, and when I asked Mitchell about it, he’d say: “Just another picture of you.”
I found a bible tract—more like a glossy magazine than a tract—in the mailbox and, for some inexplicable reason, I started to read it. The tract is devoted entirely to sin, which begs the question: why do its authors know so much about the subject?
It’s been only 10 years since the first browsers (Mozilla & then Netscape) were widely distributed, making the internet readily accessible to average computer users. Immediately, early adoptees, futurists, & pundits announced wild possibilities for a radical social realignment. They declared that, like Rocky Balboa, the little guy had a shot at the title…
A while ago, at an art auction, I purchased a single Dali wood cutting from a series of 100 prints to commemorate the 700th birthday of Italian poet, Dante Alighieri, in 1965.
Today, in the west, we scrutinize everything with a presumption of incoherence. We use post-modern theoretical models to call into question even the possibility of coherence, suggesting that the world we inhabit is fundamentally fractured.