Dialogue-Queered

*thanks to @readingplato for the clarification on “logoi”

Etching of Socrates by Thomas Trotter from an undated drawing by Peter Paul Rubens, 1788

So often nowadays the clickbait headline would read along the lines of: " Olúfémi O. Táíwò eviserates Agnes Callard." But this critical essay is so much not that. Becasue he is so clear from the beginning that he shares Callard's purpose in writing the book and proves it with cogent arguments made with respect and good humor.

The Death of Socrates, painting by Jacques-Louis David, 1787

oil on canvas, 2023

Self-portrait as an absinthe drinking Mephistopheles from Goethe’s Faust, 1914. By Harry Clarke.

Put Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg, Ellisons, and all the Hedge Fund bastards like Ken Griffin in the same banal barrel. Moral voids, ethical blanks.

which was uploaded on April 26th, 2021.

I found him on the porch that morning, sipping cold coffee, watching a crow dip down from the power line into the pile of black bags stuffed in the dumpster where he pecked and snagged a can tab, then carried it off, clamped in his beak like the key to a room only he knew about. My father turned to me then, taking in the reek of my smoke, traces of last night’s eyeliner I decided not to wipe off this time. Out late was all he said. And then smiled, rubbing the small of my back through the robe for a while, before heading inside, letting the storm door click shut behind him. Later, when I stepped into the kitchen, I saw it waiting there on the table—a glass of orange juice he had poured for me and left sweating in a patch of sunlight so bright I couldn’t touch it at first.

An actual event known as "atomic leisure," where residents and tourists in Las Vegas watched nuclear tests conducted at the Nevada Test Site from nearby swimming pools. The photograph captures the surreal scene from the Desert Inn pool on July 17, 1955, at approximately 5:30 a.m..

Julie McEnerny, Wet season, branch #2 (2023)

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