In January Alex, Paola Torres Núñez del Prado and Dave were invited by our long term collaborator and friend Julian Rohrhuber to visit the Institute for Music and Media (IMM) in Düsseldorf to expand…

There was a contentious theory in the 80s. It started in the 70s, but I wasn't there and can't speak to its contentiousness at that time. It was called the anthropic principle. It's attributed to…

A collection of ghost words … 🆕 Ghost Acreage: “a term from agriculture and economics. It describes the unseen land, water, energy, and labour required to produce what we consume, even…

So I finally made my first proper zine, in Illustrator no less. It was a lot of fun to use a software that I've become proficient at in the past few months to produce this zine. Formatting the pages…

It’s been a while since we last talked about Situationism, that giddy fusion of radical politics and performance art that seized the imaginations of a certain fraction of the European avant-garde in…

In Brief: This study examines the concept of neutrality in Library of Congress Subject Headings and the subject approval process by analyzing proposed headings that were rejected over a nearly…

Coming off the heels of Midway and Coral Sea, our book club for Samuel Eliot Morison's The Two-Ocean War, a history of the USN in WWII, heads to the South Pacific for our longest chapter yet, an…

The question of 'the' history of the Situationist Intergalactical is problematic, not least because of the time and space anomalies prevalent throughout its work on all planes of reality. The…

The Creative Mind & Mortality PodcastSeason 1: Glass BonesEpisode 4: The Rupture—When Homo Sapiens AwakenedIn this episode, I explore what may be the most important moment in human psychological…

Hamtramck's border with Detroit on Oliver Street. This is the seventh installment of Detroit Urbanism's series on the borders of the City of Detroit. As with the City of Highland Park ( covered in…

What is calling you, poor body, what lifts you, and drags you, what attracts you so late, in […]

Some writers have alter egos, whom they feature as protagonists in their novels. Jack Carr has James Reece. Tom Clancy had Jack Ryan. Ian Fleming had James Bond. I have a lead character too. His name…

The New Hampshire team is working with this rendering to create their panel for the America's Tapestry Project This year will mark the 250th anniversary since July 4th, 1776, when the Declaration of…

The finale of a four part series on consciousness

We're continuing our journey through the archives with this photo from Coney Island first posted to Shorpy on August 29, 2008. Luna Park at Coney Island circa 1905. Detroit Publishing Co. glass…

مؤخرا نشرت وزارة الثقافة السورية سبعة أناشيد مطروحة للملحنين والمغنين أن يختاروا واحدا منها ويلحنوه ليكون النشيد الوطني السوري القادم، بعد النشيد المغضوب (حماة الديار). فلذا رأيت أن أكتب مقارنة بسيطة…

Really enjoyed this blog post that slowly traces the English language back in time for a thousand years.

Post last updated 4 days, 19 hours ago Before I begin, I am curious whether you, provided you read some of my other posts too, will notice anything different in this post. If you can't hold your…

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A panel that was presented at Centaurus Festival 2026, &ldquo;Machine Soul: The Intersection of Object Spirituality and Identity,&rdquo; by Neve VR52. &ldquo;Neve VR52, the community&rsquo;s friendly…

I found three portraits of my great grandmother Mary Jane Kellam. I suspect all date from the 1890s. This first photograph likely dates from the mid-1890s. The photographer, Walter Nelson Manchester,…

Two passages from the architect and writer on the fourth anniversary of his passing.

Suppose that someone notes that the digits of π starting at some position n start looking like they have an odd pattern, and it occurs to someone to turn them into ASCII characters (three digits at a…

St. Patrick’s Day, observed every March 17, is one of the world’s most widely celebrated cultural holidays, yet it remains wrapped in a blend of fact and folklore. The day commemorates St. Patrick,…

Sounds like something a cartoon farmer would yell if they saw their cows getting out.

It’s going to be 10 years since Dear English Language was first published. It was only the beginning of too much joy, too much pain. Many things faded; others were born. This language, the English…

In honor of my hubby's Irish ancestors, on St. Patrick's Day: Smith Hubby's 5th great-grandparents, the Smiths, were born in Ireland, according to US Census of their children (question about country…

Cincinnati has always tolerated gambling. “Chasing the tiger,” as it used to be known, ebbed and surged in popularity over the years, but placing bets has never faded away. For most of Cincinnati’s…

Report of a workshop on 'Thinking About the Indian Constitution' facilitated by Dr Gautam Bhatia at The Community Library Project, Delhi, on the 28th of February 2026.

Suppose union dualism is true (I am a composite consisting of soul and body) and I am looking at a red cube. Then I am consciously aware of a red cube in virtue of my soul having some property…

كل ما يلي، بما فيها الهوامش، هي كلمات الشيخ علي الطنطاوي رحمه الله كانت 1 نشأتنا الأولى في عهد العثمانيين، وكانت لهم أناشيد يلقونها علينا باللسان التركي، إذ لم نكن نفهم معانيها الضخمة إلا بالترجمة،…

Postmodernism is not the belief that "nothing is real." This is a willful misunderstanding perpetuated by political conservatives, a standard case of right-wing projection and blame-shifting: they…

Daphne Merkin: He makes a list of different ideas that have struck him from his reading and training, among them: to make what is unconscious conscious (Freud); to break the spell of self-deception…

Cognitive semantics is a linguistic approach that understands the meaning of words in relation to human cognition and ways of perceiving things. In this article, I would like to talk about the…

For one of my cosmology course assignments I had to pick either the ontological or a version of the cosmological argument for the existence of God, discuss what I think is its weakest point, and…

From the archives. This popular image was first posted to Shorpy on March 23, 2007. Also on the menu is more waffle. And even more waffle. Entrance to the Waffle Shop at 522 10th Street NW,…

Call this one more innumerable reason why something like poetry matters in a real, tangible way: it reminds me that language is both one of the places where our most fulfilling relationships with the…

The medieval world is the foundational structure of our society. Church history of the medieval period is often neglected in reformed and evangelical circles, which largely emphasize reformation-era…

On 16th March, 1988 loyalist paramilitary Michael Stone attacked an IRA funeral at Milltown Cemetery in Belfast with grenades and gunfire. Three people were killed and dozens injured as mourners…

I've done a lot of postings about bookstores on this blog, including a few I've never visited since they are no longer around. Many of the earlier ones are listed in this post from April 2022. In…

Ἐκτείνοντας τὴν κριτικὴ στὸ φυσικό της τέλος.

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The reason why religions attach themselves to books is because of something about the book, not because of something about the religion. So that the book appears to contain ourselves and yet is not…

I recently Gave Andy Matuschak&rsquo;s Why Books don&rsquo;t work a re-read. It articulated a frustration I think we can all relate to, which is the experience of finishing a serious book, feeling…

In the late 1980s, Domino’s introduced a red-suited villain called the Noid to represent everything that could ruin yKnock knock jokes feel like they’ve always existed &#8211; but the truth [&#8230;]…

Today we are going to talk about pigs. But before we get into it, here is some important background, courtesy of the Jewish historian of the first century, Josephus. From here. Following the death of…

"I guess the real question is: Does God believe in Himself?"

A review of Jesus and John Wayne by Kristin DuMez