The Myth of Eugenides, or Mr. Good Genes
Tuesday, April 30th, 2013
Genes tell the mythology of the contemporary age. Cal Eugenides traces his personal mythology through an unlikely series of events that conspire to create the perfect circumstances to produce Cal exactly as he/she is. This tale is spun like most other myths, with fibers of truth and patterns of exaggeration, but it reflects a very […]
The Myth of Eugenides, or Mr. Good Genes
Tags: Eugenides, Genetics, Middlesex, Mythology, Narrative, Science
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We Speak the Sanatorium
Monday, February 4th, 2013
Sam Barnes The opening verse of the Tao Te Ching, rendered here through translation and thousands of years after-the-fact, announces that “the way that can be spoken is not the perennial Way.” Real encounter with life, whether it be in its social, spiritual, or societal aspect, lies just beneath our tongues. And yet the power […]
We Speak the Sanatorium
Tags: Foucault, Mythology, Nature, Science
Posted in February 5 | 2 Comments »