Figure 1. Holland House Library, London (September, 1940)
[Reverse Image: "The Tower of Babel" by Pieter Brugel, c. 1563]
When a contradiction is
impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.
(Simone Weil, 1909-1943)
on sabbatical leave for Fall 2010 term
Figure 2. Grozny City Center, Chechyna (March 1995)
Figure 3. Unmarked Kosovar Albanian Graves in Djakovica (1999)
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The International Society of Fools
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Favorite Websites
The Edge "To arrive at the edge of the world's knowledge, seek out the most complex and sophisticated minds, put them in a room together, and have them ask each other the questions they are asking themselves."
Figure 4. 25-year-old Kamajor Fighter, Sierre Leone (2000)
(written in nail polish on the butt of his gun: war is my food)
Joseph
Cornell: Navigating the Imagination
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Figure 6. Personal Effects of Kosovar Victims, Meja (1999)
Sean Kernan's "The Secret Books"
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Peter Turnley's "The Unseen Gulf War"
Thinking God: A Bilingual Simone Weil Reader
We Feel Fine & Universe (web-artworks by Jonthan Harris)
The Walter Benjamin Research Syndicate
Figure 7. Chechen Man at Samaski Mental Hospital (Grozny, 2002)
Figure 8. Gardens of Babur Shah, Kabul (2003)
Figure 9. Dead Chechen Woman Suicide Bomber
Figure 10. Boy Soldiers in Bunia, Congo (June 2003)
Figure 11. Russians checking list of victims of subway bombing (February 2004)
Figure 12. American soldiers in Najaf, Iraq cemetery tomb (August 2004)
Figure 13. Sudanese refugees fleeing Darfur (April 2004)
Figure 14. Girl, aged 9, burned in Gujarat massacre (India, 2002)
Figure 15. Uganda's "Night Commuters" (June 2005)
Figure 16. Paul Auster in Central Park (my favorite contemporary author)
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