Counterforces and Other Little Jokes

I reviewed The Art Instinct months ago (though I don't remember if I did so on this blog or on the joculum LiveJournal) but now the new...

Cultures are complicated things. This is one of those firm grasps of the obvious that seem to elude the scholars as much as the general popu...

I have long had an interest in how cognitive packages get delivered. Also how physical packages get delivered, or presented, anyway; a long-...

This is a piece I wrote some time ago that is unashamedly about the past. I seem to be writing so many thousand words on joculum.livejournal...

Umberto Eco may have been among its theoreticians and Joan Fontcuberta one of many artists making full-blown art out of fictitious history, ...

I am left with the feeling that the Dec/Jan issue of Bookforum ought to be worked through in a seminar. To say the least, it is one of thos...

As I focus increasingly on matters other than art (but with an eye towards getting the Atlanta art world through the year ahead of us) I fin...