A. A curious sight in Chicago: a revolving door, center outfitted with a glassed-in display of carefully arranged products, none related to the other — POM, NIKE, DIOR. That one is predisposed to a mock-circumambulation in entering and exiting testifies to the contemporary unification of market and urban spaces — that is, the introduction of [...]

لتارن و ريم —The ethical dilemma raised by an Israeli court's decision to sentence a Palestinian man eighteen months in prison for "rape by deception" after he lied to a Jewish woman about his race and had consensual sex with her is not one over rights or equality, but over the legitimacy of race as [...]

"Boredom of the ceremonial scenes depicted in historical paintings, and boredom in general. Boredom and museum. Boredom and battle scenes." — Proust The museum is the accumulation of ruins and culture, culture in ruins, which is to say in one word, history. There, ambiguity reigns: one is at a loss as to the whether all [...]

I. The scenes are of healthy, sun-kissed bodies copulating with vermin. The simplicity of the arrangements, their undeniable nonchalantness, succeed in disconcerting the spectator, drowning him in ambiguity: is man preying on beast? or is beast preying on man? what of certain sexual roles: giver and receiver, dominant and dominated? But then once the spectator [...]