limitedsimulacra

  When Adam was in maternal – kindergarten for those of you in the States - in Santa Monica, the teachers keep a running file on his moods ...

  It is after we get a little bit bigger and stop playing with LEGOS and building blocks that we accept as a fact that you can’t build a hou...

    Breakfast cereal is an emblem of the industrialized food system. If the system had a totem, surely the faces of Captain Crunch, Tony the...

I know many people who, while being fully literate and even liking to read, manage to read only a half a dozen books per year. Now, it is th...

The “strangers” in the European enlightenment, the Persians, Chinese and African kings – they are not only there to be strangers. They are t...

  While doing her fieldwork among the Makassar, a people living on the peninsula of  Sulawesi, Indonesia who are ‘renowned” for their seafar...

  There are very few passages in books that really horrify me. Some of De Sade's writing does, and certainly I am horrified by what is t...