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A reading of photography as a way of collecting, interpreting, and exercising power over what we see.PhotographyCulture
Artifice, exaggeration, theatricality, and the unstable pleasure of taking style seriously.AestheticsCulture
Why explanation can become a screen between an artwork and the experience it offers.AestheticsWriting
A reconsideration of war photography, spectatorship, sympathy, and the limits of visual evidence.PhotographyPolitics
A short note on the harm caused when disease is turned into judgement, punishment, or personal failure.CulturePolitics
Jane Austen begins with a polished certainty, then lets conversation expose everything it conceals.WritingCulture
A fragment from Jane Austen's final completed novel, opening on vanity rendered with exact comic control.WritingCulture
