The Second Common
“The second notion of the common,” Hardt and Negri write, “is dynamic, involving both the product of labor and the means of future production. This common is not only the earth we share but also the language we create, the social practices we establish, the modes of sociality that define our relationships, and so forth. [...]
Bibliophilia
“A library is truly a status room,” an interior designer said in a stylish story in today’s L.A. Times about displaying books at home. I agree: books are soulful, charismatic objects; they represent possibility and openness.
Books may be charismatic (whether they are “soulful” depends, I suppose, on your definition of soul; I have none). But [...]
Qu’est-ce que c’est qu’un blog?
For me, the blog is a writing prompt, a daily assignment to make my writerly self presentable. The thought that eyeballs might scour my language compels me to groom it, to keep my writing muscles pumped.
The blog form, as it is casually practiced, is a digest of consumption (look at this wacky YouTube video I [...]
