Memoir - autotheory - the personal essay — first-personalism as dark literary style

SINCE THE 1920s, the majority of US college applications have required, along with test scores and transcripts, a written personal statement demonstrating "character." That such a subjective quality should be decisive in admissions is an odd, distinctly (though perhaps not uniquely) American practice that, at its genesis, was motivated by antisemitism and racism. As Jerome Karabel writes in The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton (2005), requi...

The Battle over Street Play in New York City (1910-1930)

"Where there are kids, there is play." Iona Opie "The setting of boundaries is always a political act." Edward J. Blakely and Mary Gail Snyder "We begin with the child when he is three years old. As soon as he begins to think he gets a little flag put in his hand."  Dr Robert LEY, leader of Nazi Labor Front. As an urban game designer, and an immigrant to the US, I find it particularly interesting to understand the relationship between cultures and public space: the implicit and expli...

Science in Glass: Material Pathologies in Laboratory Research, Glassware Standardization, and the (Un)Natural History of a Modern Material, 1900s–1930s | Isis: Vol 113, No 2

Science in Glass: Material Pathologies in Laboratory Research, Glassware Standardization, and the (Un)Natural History of a Modern Material, 1900s–1930s Science in Glass: Material Pathologies in Laboratory Research, Glassware Standardization, and the (Un)Natural History of a Modern Material, 1900s–1930sKijan EspahangiziAbstract At the turn of the twentieth century, so-called "glass diseases" seriously affected the use of scientific and technical glassware. It had become ap...

Light Caught Bending - TLS 20 March 2020 edition

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Antonin Artaud

Antonin ArtaudSourceURL: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/antonin-artaud Poetry Foundation Antonin Artaud, considered among the most influential figures in the evolution of modern drama theory, was born in Marseilles, France, and he studied at the Collège du Sacré-Cœur. He moved to Paris, where he associated with surrealist writers, artists, and experimental theater groups during the 1920s. When political differenc...