David Ellerman, philosopher, mathematician, economist, and political theorist, is highly critical of the intellectual underpinnings of the current employment system, which he says institutionalize “the renting of persons” on dubious philosophical grounds.
“Culture, in the true sense, did not [in the past] simply accommodate itself to human beings; but it always simultaneously raised a protest against the petrified relations under which they lived, thereby honouring them. In so far as culture becomes wholly assimilated to and integrated in those petrified relations, human beings are once more debased.” [1]
Poet Karen Rigby’s “Norma Desmond Descending the Staircase as Salome” inspired The Straddler to rewatch the final scene of Sunset Boulevard, in which Gloria Swanson, as Norma Desmond, as Salome, lost in fantasy, descends the stairs for the close-up she is famously “ready for.”
Harrow the house of the dead; look shining at New styles of architecture, a change of heart.
The Straddler in conversation with a Turkish-born, New York-based architect.
Great Leaps Beliefs bear the weight of truths, perhaps because they feel true.
In 2008, a group of scientists and researchers led by Dr. Brian J.F. Wong of the Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) attempted to catch a rainbow in their hands.
“[T]he high points of the exhibition were two dead gangsters,” writes Graham Greene in The Lawless Roads, about a hapless freak show he attends at the border between the United States and Mexico.
“Water is important to people who do not have it,” wrote Joan Didion in “Holy Water,” her 1968 essay, “and the same is true of control.”
On Saturday, August 28th, after several weeks of written exchanges, The Straddler traveled to South Orange, New Jersey to pay a visit to Monsignor Richard Liddy.
