Anna Craycroft: A Weekly Correspondence (8/5/13)
The primary word is not a straightforward symbol for a concept but rather an image, a picture, a mental sketch of a concept, a short tale about it—indeed, a small work of art…
In Conversation
Anna Craycroft: A Weekly Correspondence (7/29/2013)
In accordance with a simple, necessary, and self-conditioned law of life, the development of the child proceeds from a definite, invisible, unchangeable, implicit unity, which is in harmony with a corresponding unity in the cosmos…
New Freedoms
What do we gain from pretending George Zimmerman is white?
Anna Craycroft: A Weekly Correspondence (7/22/13)
word = work = praxis
sacrifice of action = verbalism
sacrifice of reflection = activism
Anna Craycroft: A Weekly Correspondence (7/15/13)
The aim is an inner one, namely, that the child train himself to observe; that he be led to make comparisons between objects, to form judgments, to reason and to decide…
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Cant Sleep
2/13/13 2:45 PM I killed Abe Lincoln during my two hour nap #intensedream
4/6/13 9:33 PM I really don’t like it when I have one ear pressed against the pillow and I start to hear my heart beat, who can sleep with all that noise
Anna Craycroft: A Weekly Correspondence (7/8/13)
If the act of thinking is itself motor, its expression is somewhat attenuated in adults…
The Beckett/Bushmiller Letters
A country road. A tree. Evening. Are these the first six words of one of the most an original works ever written for the stage—or the description of a panel from the comic strip Nancy?
Anna Craycroft: A Weekly Correspondence (7/2/13)
It is important that you yourself try to develop the letter in a meaningful way out of the drawing element…
Staff Picks: Joey Bada$$ Tracks, Zizek's Ad Copy
Now that Zizek no longer has to defend himself against over-intellectualized accusations of being a “sellout” by writing copy for a clothing company, we can see the work for what it actually is: amazing text art.
"The Sukhum Photos" & "Why I Always Listen to Such Sad Music"
Why do we also see beauty in disharmony, not just in harmony, in asymmetry, not just symmetry, when it ought to be only the evenly balanced and harmoniously proportioned things that appeal to our aesthetic sense…?
Anna Craycroft: A Weekly Correspondence (6/24/13)
The person has a hundred languages, a hundred hands, a hundred thoughts…
Death to the Speaker: A Provocation
What I’m calling for in poetry is the death of the speaker. Like all calls to arms I applaud those who will immediately refuse me…
Staff Picks: Nigeria's Cashless Economy, Mark Strand on Edward Hopper
So, Nigeria is becoming a cashless society…
A Conversation with Mikhail Shishkin
“A lot of people who were highly praised—famous actors, theater directors, musical directors…they just licked the ass of Putin, and it was very depressing and humiliating, because they’re afraid of him. […] I actually have no fear. You see, their power is our fear. And if you don’t fear, then they have no power…”