Art as Essay

Why do we stuff ourselves with cold holiday turkey?

“Do I obey economic laws if I extract money by offering my body for sale,… — Then the political economist replies to me: You do not transgress my laws; but see what Cousin Ethics and Cousin Religion have to say about it. My political economic ethics and religion have nothing to reproach you with, but […]

Self and the City: Re-cognizing My-Self on a Playground for the Super-rich

1.     The Society That My-Self Does Not Recognize   “Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.” Fredrick Douglas   Nestled 8000 feet in the Elk Mountains of Western Colorado is one of America’s most vaunted playgrounds for Hollywood celebrities, hedge fund managers, war profiteers, fossil- fuel speculators and the international jet set.   Aspen, […]