The Age of Duse : Gloss
The lectures are written for a course that is never taught because the discipline in which it might be delivered does not yet exist.
The lectures are written for a course that is never taught because the discipline in which it might be delivered does not yet exist.
Duse’s superpower: her capacity to disappear, leaving only her plaster hands as evidence that she was a material presence in the world. Disappearance. Reproduction. She knew the theatrical drill.
The future is here, but it was also the past — our stages of technological understanding precede us and haunt us into our futures.
We hear an undeniably human voice. First a few. Then hundreds. Then thousands. Then all of the human voices in the world, all at once.
when I close my eyes, this apartment is a faded light when I close my eyes, we begin to doubt
This city is being made and headed for - from this town that has been arguing with me, it will get something.
Maybe these letters and numbers help me imagine a catastrophic snowfall in Shelby County, KY, or the action in Correspondence. But really the numbers aren’t for me. They’re for my laptop.
If I won’t say it, at least I wear the marks of what I won’t reveal.
The “ultimate performance” requires the agora, as it demands a democratic space in which every author is also every other person’s performer.