[What follows is a guest column I wrote for The Crescent News (Defiance, OH). It was published on Jan. 18, 2016.] While many celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr., his complexity has been largely erased from our memories. He has been sentimentalized to such an extent that the radical nature of his message has been lost. Even…
Fascinating short article on how architecture, which we are to a large extent blind to due to it naturalization, is bound up in social control: “An architect that is running an office, who is in debt and pays salaries, has all the economic incentives to take it [a commission], but must resist it. The punishment…
Read this small statement from Le Guin (see link): “I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now and can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine some real grounds…
Strange, disturbing reading material for the day: Read the letter the FBI sent MLK to try to convince him to kill himself – Vox.
Dr. TODD A. COMER 