The Prison of Mind

from the New Yorker ...

Spatiality and Schmitt

Glamorous Gotham : Georgia O'Keeffe

A wonderful set of pictures of one of the greatest american artists.
There is always something vaguely Eliotian in the mood, and objects, of these pictures, as maybe there is in Strand's Photography and in the writings of Stieglitz about what is really straight in the visual arts.

O'Keefe's pictures represent an escapable path for all who try to capture and define the unsolved riddle of  Modernism

l'Indice dei Libri

L'Indice di dicembre 2010

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The Future of Clothes

Store energy in your clothes to recharge your devices

The Moods Café in Turin

Shakespeare and the Law

Raffield on Titus Adronicus & English Common Law

Paul Raffield (The University of Warwick - School of Law) has posted ‘Terras Astraea reliquit’: Titus Andronicus and the Loss of Justice(SHAKESPEARE AND THE LAW, pp. 203-220, Paul Raffield and Gary Watt, eds., Hart, 2008, Warwick School of Law Research) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:

This paper considers the constitutional and political significance of Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, in the context of fin-de-siècle Elizabethan rule, during which period the jurisdiction of the prerogative courts threatened to supersede that of the courts of common law. I examine juristic belief in the existence of an unwritten law, superior in authority to imperial edict: a theme which resonates throughout Titus, but which also underscores The Reports of Sir Edward Coke, which he was compiling in the 1590s. I analyse also the symbolic importance of ancient Rome to the development in England of a body of literature that might loosely be termed republican. The story of the destruction of Troy and its re-emergence in London as Troynovant is a literary device that was employed by Elizabethan writers as a means of establishing the ancient credentials of the English state and English common law