Immediacy

Yet one of art’s most compelling features is how it showcases the disjuncts between the time of composition, the time of dissemination, and the time of consideration—disjuncts that can summon us to humility and wonder. Such temporal amplitude understandably falls out of favor in politically polarized times, in which the pressure to make clear “whic

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As the realm of virtual information complexifies, it is increasingly difficult to collectively experience, let alone agree on concrete descriptions of events. The platforms we use to communicate often lack archival affordances, optimizing instead for the nonstop production of new content. So context collapses and signifiers empty their meaning. Whe... See more

The actually existing culture of self-improvement, while its prevalence fairly shouts the need for progressive social movements, does not yet offer much possibility for progressive social change. What would be required to tap into the unrest in self-improvement culture would be a politics committed to economic justice (redistribution) as well as to

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