Pathways
Each month we keep track of the different paths modern life is taking and how writers are keeping up. Here are some routes we found in August on our modern life.
Can the genealogy of one family explain modern France? The Nation
The future of the study of antiquity looks grim (especially as Classicists try to kill off their own discipline) but it has looked grim before. The New Criterion
Dean Kamen, the Segway, and the end of the dream of the 90s. Slate
The most exciting new painting? Well, it was painted 400 years ago. The Art Newspaper
The French revolution replaced one modern elite with another. The American Conservative
Plastic, the technology of the future, is mostly the trash of the future. Noema Magazine
Empathy is, at heart, an aesthetic appreciation of the other. Psyche Magazine
Technology is the oldest and most modern of problems, at least according to Heidegger. The New Atlantis
How Charles Dickens built Bleak House and its critique of bleak modernity. The Guardian
What went up and down on the night they built the Berlin Wall? CrimeReads