“One way to use science to approach literature (and art in general) is to view it as a behavior in evolutionary terms. Why do art in general and storytelling in particular exist as cross-species behaviors?”
Tag: 03.08
America’s Suburbs – A Decline Of Civilization?
“No longer young, no longer trendy, no longer the place to be, no longer without apparent limitations or constraints, these places, like people, have developed ways of avoiding reality.”
The Inverted Politics Of Luxury
“Among the excesses of our age is a plus-sized literature on the vast wasteland of human consumption, of full closets and empty souls. The story of the last 30 years in fashion is one of democratization and proliferation, of a middle class and an elite becoming increasingly indistinguishable. Undeniably, it’s also a story of filthy rich men getting richer.”
Philadelphia’s Star Architecture Critic
The Philadelphia Inquirer’s Inga Saffron “isn’t just a critic — she’s a reporter and, often, an advocate in her weekly “Changing Skyline” column. Those roles muddy the journalistic waters at times, but in a city with a planning agency that’s asleep at the wheel and a tangled, ineffective zoning code, her words carry great weight.”