4451moanaMar 23, 20222 min readBlind Date: Sex and Philosophy (book review) Anne Dufourmantelle120619: this is fascinating. this will reward future rereads, much as sex rewards repeats, for the author has ranged widely, focused,...
4451moanaJan 25, 20222 min readDeleuze, Bergson, Merleau-Ponty (book review) Dorothea E Olkowski The Logic and Pragmatics of Creation, Affective Life, and Perception 220124: three of my favourite philosophers, so it is no surprise...
4451moanaJan 21, 20221 min readOn seeing 'The Bigamist' Ida Lupino (1953) (movie review)sympathetic midcentury portrayal of man not only marrying two women, but working as travelling salesman. no violence, no action, a lot of...
4451moanaNov 29, 20211 min readThe Unicorn (book review) Iris Murdochi have not read much gothic(45), so i do not know how it uses gothic structures beyond the obvious: castle, sublime isolation, dangerous...
4451moanaNov 22, 20211 min readThe Lover (book review) Marguerite Duras 211121: another reason to improve my french reading. read at least three times. this slim novella is exactly what i want in romance:...
4451moanaNov 17, 20211 min readDivine Madman (book review) Dominique Rolin 220319: fun./review to come... ok review now days later. we lived in bruxelles when my father was on sabbatical so my parents really...
4451moanaNov 16, 20211 min readA Girl Is a Body of Water (book review) Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi210606: this is family epic set through modern history of uganda, seen from feminist point of view. that is, confronting patriarchal...
4451moanaNov 16, 20212 min readThe Passion of Artemisia (book review) Susan Vreeland 210624: when i took art history at u i really did not enjoy it, now i see it everywhere, love it everywhere, am endlessly fascinated by...
4451moanaNov 11, 20211 min readCrawl Space (book review) Jesse Jacobs050119: this, as my illustrator friend might say, is art. that is, weird shit. of course i love it, it is supremely visual, tells...
4451moanaNov 11, 20211 min readSquare Eyes (book review) Anna Mill, Luke Jones070419: riley found this on his trip to france though i guess we are supposed to find it on the internet. graphics stores did not have...
4451moanaNov 11, 20211 min readThe Death and Life of Great American Cities (book review) Jane Jacobs??? 2000s?: you will never see a sidewalk the same after reading this...
4451moanaNov 11, 20211 min readFilm Art Phenomena (book review) Nicky Hamlyn??? 000s?: this is only for those who take film seriously as artistic potential. potential far beyond the common narrative films from...
4451moanaNov 11, 20211 min readPostmodern Science Fiction and Temporal Imagination (book review) Elana Gomelgreat lost review
4451moanaNov 11, 20211 min readNānā I Ke Kumu (Look to the Source): Volume 2 (book review) Mary Kawena Pukui, E.W. Haertig, Catharine A. Lee 110214: excellent resource, extends words more in elaborating life of precontact Hawai'ians, the way they lived, what...
4451moanaNov 11, 20211 min readNānā I Ke Kumu (Look to the Source) Volume 1 (book review) Mary Kawena Pukui, E.W. Haertig180214: excellent resource. anthropological, sociological, definitions and actions and ways of thinking, of Hawai'ian people before and...
4451moanaNov 11, 20211 min readBrazil's Modern Architecture (book review) Elisabetta Andreoli, Adrian Forty200614: fascinating. beautiful. heartbreaking. sort of what the idea and contemporary actuality of Brazil means to me. chapter essay on...
4451moanaNov 11, 20211 min readBuzzed (book review) Cynthia M. Kuhn, Scott Swartzwelder, Wilkie WilsonThe Straight Facts about the Most Used & Abused Drugs from Alcohol to Ecstasy 210714: very useful book i wish had been around when young,...
4451moanaNov 11, 20211 min readChris Marker: La Jet�e (book review) Janet Harbord290414: another favourite film. unlike anything you will ever see, this twenty-nine minute collection of black and white stills is...
4451moanaNov 11, 20211 min readIdeal Cities (book review) Ruth EatonUtopiansim and the (Un)Built Environment 240115: this is a fascinating history of- mostly european- cultures, in conceiving the ideal...
4451moanaNov 11, 20211 min readHow to Live (book review) Sarah BakewellOr A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer