It Is Easier To Imagine the End of Opera Than the End of Capitalism: On Yuval Sharon’s “A New Philosophy of Opera”
For those of us who want the art of opera to persist materially—not just metaphysically—it is easier to imagine the end of opera, or art in general, than the end of capitalism.
Embodiment as Enigma: On Xi Xi’s “Mourning a Breast”
What illness and pain cast into relief is that our minds will always be lost in translation—and will always remain in a liminal space—somewhere between our embodiment and the outer world.