Public Displays Of Seduction
Last week a friend said my blog is getting too abstract. It’s not suited for mass consumption. Is my purpose to enlighten or entertain? A little humor couldn’t hurt. Another friend told me to write for...
View ArticleA Fable Or Two
I relate the following fables without much explanation. Let’s just say they seduced me. I have no idea what they mean. But I wonder. *** “Consider the story of the soldier who meets Death at a crossing...
View ArticlePrivate Eyes
In 1983 Sophie Calle published Suite venitienne, a “true” account of her adventures following a man named Henri B. for two weeks in Venice. Sophie barely knows Henri. She’s not attracted to him. But...
View ArticleOnline Bating
Ever the provocateur, Baudrillard tells us in Baudrillard Live about “the story of the woman to whom a man sends an ardent love letter” (p. 110). “She asks him what part of her seduced him the most....
View ArticleManifest Destiny
America’s fate took a sharp right turn last week. Was electing Donald Trump our destiny? Or another random occurrence in an absurd universe? Or the logical result of intricate causal relationships...
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