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)…
SPOILERS Greener than You Think far better, if you want an English-language novel of eco-collapse from this era, not only because of its anticapitalism and…
A great and boggy disappointment. Do we need yet another book cataloging the failures of Lacan and Heidegger on animals? After Derrida, after Calarco, after…
A little more than a month ago, I put up a little post about the Wolf Child of Hesse. I’m talking about this material twice…
Two unconnected thoughts: Many folks have shared their Babel 2012 experiences. They’ve been brilliant. Look on this blog, of course, but also look at The…
Sometime either before or after the appearance of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, I had an idea for a novel by the same name. Let’s…
