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Friday, December 14, 2012

Arts & Letters Daily (14 Dec 2012)

Arts & Letters Daily (14 Dec 2012):


Do you sneer at things predigital, use words like "disruptive," tap the wisdom of the crowd? Get a grip: You've become a cyberguru... more



Before Hobbes, political thought was historical thought, much of it wacky. Since Hobbes, political thought was about ideas, many of them preposterous... more



Marcel Duchamp was ambivalent, even embarrassed, about producing art. He was in search of a medium untainted by aesthetics. He was, in short, a Romantic... more