locations:
Chicago
misc:
locations:
Chicago
misc:
Maxwell’s Demon; Eliot Weinberger / An Elemental Thing; Idries Shah / The Sufis; Miguel León-Portilla / The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico; quipus; textile as information storage; Julia Child omelette; Washington Matthews / “Navajo Weavers” (Smithsonian Bureau of Ethnology report); string figures, grandparents, grant-writing
locations:
Berlin and Chicago
misc:
Berlin hat-spotting; European adoption of the fork; Louis Bury / “The Year in Digital Folk Art: Much of 2025’s Creative Innovation Happened Outside the Art World”; Robert Smithson / Zodiac Drawings; Paola Igliori (ed.) / American Magus: Harry Smith; mythomania; Chappaqua (Conrad Rooks); Kiowa peyote recordings; cultural pendulum: technology ↔ mysticism; Pillar (Tulsa, Oklahoma Christian metalcore); Cro-Mags; devotional hardcore (Krishnacore, Tooth & Nail Records, Lungfish); William Blake / “All Religions Are One”; Simone Weil / Gravity and Grace; I Ching; Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann / Repetition and Rupture; Erik Davis / TechGnosis: Myth, Magic & Mysticism in the Age of Information; Thomas Pynchon / The Crying of Lot 49; Charles Portis / Masters of Atlantis
locations:
Chicago, Virginia, Düsseldorf, and Berlin
misc:
Jerrold Ballaine; Gump’s; department-store galleries; The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame; Zevon; Harry Smith; Catholic-inflected gnosticism; J. I. Wedgwood; Anglo-/Old Catholic communion structures; Union of Utrecht; contemplative traditions; Simone Weil; receptive spiritual posture; Kunstverein Jahresgaben histories; Beuys's canoe (Heimholung des Joseph Beuys); Festum Fluxorum/Fluxus/Musik und Antimusik/Das Instrumentale Theater; Kunstakademie Düsseldorf to Ohme Jupp; "off-space"; Thanksgiving in Germany; flânerie
locations:
Chicago and Washington, DC
misc:
Austronesian language family; ritual (Chicago religious movements, Freemasonry, etc.); conspicuous consumption (RE: Veblen); Dunning–Kruger effect; Babe Ruth; Manfred Laber's Zeitpyramide; linens; coin laundromats; friction
locations:
Chicago and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan
misc:
Goethe's "Nachbilder"; "signals" and "relays" (re: Kubler); The Life Aquatic; Local Hero; Kiosk Sphinx
locations:
Chicago and Sheboygan
misc:
shellac; King of the Hill, season 14; MCA Chicago / “Art by Telephone”; László Moholy-Nagy / “Telephone Pictures”; Lucy Lippard / “Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972”; Göller / “What is the Cause of the Perpetual Style Change in Architecture”; Danto / “The Artworld”; Jake Skeets / “Memory Fields”; Janelle Zara / "Can Performance Art Cure Us of Brain Rot?"; Dylan Kerr / "Portraits of No One: 'Frictionless Painting' and the Smooth Flow of Capital/Content"; culturally modified trees; jazz kissa; Heidi Bucher's "skinnings"
locations:
Chicago and Oklahoma
misc:
sunomono; Chablis; Salt Plains State Park; genesis of country-rock; petroglyphs; Gloria Farley; Robert Smithson; Rancière / “The Ignorant Schoolmaster,” “Distribution of the Sensible”; Kubler / “The Shape of Time”