the Iranian revolution - itself a salvo against cultural globalization

Insurrectionary Gordimer has given way to the the sedulously horrified Coetzee

Across the hall, the purely academic panels in the 1980s were, for better or worse, more vituperative.

such a book does comport with Peter’s idea of philosophy, and resolves his existential crisis into the bargain

ascending Diotima’s ladder from the lower rung of desire for the sun-kissed body of the swimsuit model to the kallocratic worldview of beautiful actions based on knowledge of the eternal and beautiful forms of the starry heavens above us

The central city is a jagged collage of collonades

the talky badinage-based humor of his circle of clowns

all morbid “advertisements for myself” in the charnel house of Southern consumerism.

The camera reads over her shoulder as she recites a laconic monologue:

as if Rosler no longer trusts her audience to infer ambiguous cues or take her Frankfurt School meditations for anything but soporific jargon