by Dahlia | Apr 29, 2020 | Journal
In case you haven’t been paying attention to the news these last few weeks, things are pretty fucked up. Not only has the corona death toll surpassed Vietnam numbers, but countless states are already planning their re-opening strategies, all while testing and...
by Dahlia | Apr 1, 2020 | Journal
In his book The Return of the Real: The Avant-Garde at the End of the Century, American art critic Hal Foster writes that it is trauma that allows us to escape from the traditional binary approach that plagued most postwar art: that images either refer to something or...
by Dahlia | Mar 19, 2020 | Journal
Do you remember the migrant caravans? How can you not, right? You barely escaped with your life! In 2018 and 2019, Trump couldn’t stop warning Americans about the large, organized caravans—full of criminals! rapists! gang members! terrorists!—that were headed...
by Dahlia | Mar 8, 2020 | Journal
Telemachus is a figure in Greek mythology, the son of Odysseus and Penelope, and a central character in Homer’s Odyssey. The first four books of the Odyssey focus on Telemachus’s journeys in search of news about...
by Dahlia | Dec 23, 2019 | Journal
Yesterday, I had lunch with a good friend at a restaurant in New York that shares a bathroom with the adjacent comedy club. It’s a little awkward, but it’s a bathroom, you just have to walk through the comedy club to get to it. I’ve done it many...
by Dahlia | Nov 17, 2019 | Journal
Shortly after the world changed on November 8, 2016, one of my no-longer-friends enthusiastically declared that we finally had a president who was entertaining. I was horrified, for all the obvious reasons. But I also realized the harsh reality: this is how the world...
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