Culture and Arts
An Excerpt From Digging Up The Dead; A History of Notable American Reburials
Relocation and reburial (or 'translation' of a body, to use the traditional, Latin-derived word) are invariably all about the resurgence of the reputation of and hence respect for someone whose lamp and visage had dimmed in some way. more »
The Wellcome Collection; A Destination for the Incurably Curious
Vienna in 1900 was a city obsessed with the mind. Political unrest had left the Viennese with an overwhelming sense that they were living in 'nervous times'. Anxieties about mental health were allied to fears about the modern city. more »
Facebook Famine Ends with Celebration of Empty Calories
But unlike face to face communication, I think online communication can only take relationships so far. It is ambient awareness that helps connect people, but not truly connect with people the way that face to face communication does. more »
Exploded City, From the Future
We are made to see these places that for most of us never existed in our consciousness, and how they connect to ourselves, in concrete terms of war or policy and in abstract terms of fear and empathy. In these moments, the variables of distance, speed, and time that keep us from knowing these places through our own experience collapse. more »
