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Forgetting to Fall Has Become Harder: On Writing in Pandemia World

Posted on April 16, 2020 by Torsten Kathke / 0 Comment

“There is an art, or, rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss” begins a memorable passage...

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Tom Wolfe and the Age of Self-Involvement

Posted on May 24, 2018 by Torsten Kathke / 0 Comment

Tom There’s writers in there like Pynchon. But if he were a realist. There’s thorough knowledge of American history and the people who wrote it down...

Dark Prospects. Storm Clouds over the Eiffel Tower. Photo by Benny Jackson.
current affairs/history/opinion/philosophy/society

Decide: The French Election and the Untenable Position of Abstention

Posted on May 5, 2017 by Torsten Kathke / 0 Comment

Slavoj Žižek bemoans in The Independent that the upcoming French run-off election means no choice at all because between Le Pen and Macron, the French people fa...

Sir Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577 - 1640 ), The Fall of Phaeton, c. 1604/1605, probably reworked c. 1606/1608, oil on canvas. National Gallery of Art.
art/opinion/society/thoughts

Art Is Worth Fighting For

Posted on April 25, 2017 by Torsten Kathke / 0 Comment

Science, we march for. The humanities, however, have not fared well lately. That is, the way we talk about the humanities has not been much in the way of apprec...

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