Surviving the Sahara: On Being Bored
In his 1989 address to the graduating class of Dartmouth College the Russian poet Joseph Brodsky decided to forego the platitudes that comprise such…
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Letter From the Editor: Free Roaming
We are pleased to be back in the saddle here at Transpositions after a luxuriously spent winter intermission. In a way, our return was…
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Surviving the Sahara: On Being Bored
In his 1989 address to the graduating class of Dartmouth College the Russian poet Joseph Brodsky decided to forego the platitudes that comprise such…
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Here’s the Church, Here’s the Steeple: But With Robots, Not People
“…some to church repair, / Not for the doctrine, but the music there.” – Alexander Pope [1] On most Sundays the Norwegian Seamen’s Church situated…
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American Beauty: A Photographer’s Focus on Industry
“The taste for the useful predominates over the love of the beautiful in the heart of man,” writes Alexis de Tocqueville at the opening…
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The Joy of Being Blindfolded: Or Why You Should Read Thomas Pynchon
Everyone has at least one piece of literature they are congenitally afraid of picking up. Be it the fear and trembling of page count,…
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Courting Camp: An Everyday Aesthetic
When postmodernity marked the “aestheticization” of reality, the lines between high and low culture collapsed and a sensibility devoted to seeing the world as…
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A Persistent Pessimism: On Roger Scruton’s “Why Are Pessimists Ignored?”
One of the many nightmarish global crises indexed in the pages of the New York Times this past week was the identification of an…
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Review: Form and Faith in Victorian Poetry and Religion
Kirstie Blair. Form and Faith in Victorian Poetry and Religion. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, 258 pp., £60.00/$110.00 cloth. In this book Kirstie Blair,…
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