Unnameable Present

The Unnamable Present, by Roberto Calasso, is curious and compelling.   The first half is about the features which render the post-millenial age “unnameable.”  In it, Calasso connects otherwise disparate strands of thought, in very interesting ways.  The presentation of these series of connections together characterize the unnameable present.  In the second half, Calasso presents […]

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Like Lightning

I finished Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life/An Antidote to Chaos. I’m not big on self-help books, normally, but I like listening to Peterson’s debates and interviews, and I especially liked the series he did on old testament stories. I actually downloaded the transcripts of those and pored over them. Very insightful. In fact, I […]

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