#55 On the unconscious
Dear Mat, Apologies for the lateness but I was on my own European jaunt and was equally if not more appalled by the moribund ivory tower I encountered at an
The work of Jamie Freestone and Mathew McGann
Dear Mat, Apologies for the lateness but I was on my own European jaunt and was equally if not more appalled by the moribund ivory tower I encountered at an
Dear Jamie, In 2009 I went on a trip to Europe. The year before I had read the life-turn-upside-downing 4 Hour Workweek and made a bunch of friends from all
Dear Mat, One of my favourite formulations of literature — as opposed to myth — is Kenneth Burke’s claim that it is equipment for living. Literature provides us with new perspectives
Dear Jamie Damn it man all I wanted was an exact explanation of the hierarchy of value boiled down into a sentence or two. What good are you? I’d like
Most nonfiction book reviews suffer from the same problems. If they’re critical they generally go one of two ways. The author misses out topic X, I know about X and
In order of rough appearance in history, here are four types of myth. All of them, it should be obvious, are meaningful: they provide their users with what Kenneth Burke called “equipment
Dear Mat, Could there be a cult based on Hamlet? Sure, cults (short lived belief systems) spring up all over the place all the time. But I’m pretty sure it would never become a religion
Dear Jamie, That was my favourite letter in some time. Thank you. I also love irony, at least when I’m aware of it. The progression of agency in the history