by KARL STEEL First Quick Take: We here love how “deep time” humiliates our human pretensions. From my own deep time archive, from my distant…
by KARL STEEL Like others, I’ve been trying to get my head around the recent Duns SCOTUS1 ruling on patentable genes. Here’s Tim Morton, and…
Picture from the Met At the end of my annus mirabilis, I published a response essay in Reading Skin in Medieval Literature and Culture (ed.…
Analog Notes by KARL STEEL Last night, NYU held a celebratory roundtable for Carolyn Dinshaw’s latest book, How Soon is Now: Medieval Texts, Amateur Readers,…
by KARL STEEL In Aristotle, Isidore, and a host of medieval encyclopedias, we learn that many worms and reptiles (creeping things) generate spontaneously, mostly from…
Francis I, the new pope, has only 1 lung. Note that. Here is Aquinas on a newly relevant question: Article 6. Whether lack of members…
There’s lecturing with a blackboard. There’s lecturing with slides. There’s group work and conversation and problem solving and Reacting to the Past. And then there’s the…
“For the human mind, when judging visible things, can recognize that it itself is better than all visible things.” From Augustine’s Answers to Miscellaneous Questions,…
Werewolf and monster scholarship loves to cite a painting of three werewolves holding knives, supposedly in (or once in) Poligny, in the Jura, in the…
Valhalla Rising, to set the mood “Merely quantitative differences, beyond a certain point, pass into qualitative changes.” (Marx, Capital I.11, cadged from Malcolm Harris)…
