Barrelhouse is one of my favorite literary magazines. It’s one of the first I picked up, at Von’s Books in…
“I Don’t Get Art”
Is it actually controversial to say that you don’t get art? People act like it is. And maybe it seems…
Select Quotes from the William Gibson Talk at the Chicago Humanities Festival
“The internet is turning itself inside out.”
In Which I Apologize for Having to Talk about the Nazis
When I did an image-search for “sublime,” literally all I got for 16 pages were promo pics of the band…
The Kind of Machine That Tragedy Is
Last time, I explored Plato’s theory of art; this time, I’d like to focus on Aristotle, particularly the Poetics, and…
Kicking Out the Poets
For my post-introduction aesthetics post, I wanted to talk some about Plato, and specifically whether and why the poets need…
Introduction/Aesthetics
Hi, Big Other. I’m new here, at least as a contributor. My name is James Tadd Adcox. I’m kind of…