Category: Fiction

  • Fiktion ist der Schlüssel zu kreativen Lösungen, von Alan N. Shapiro

    Fiktion ist der Schlüssel zu kreativen Lösungen Die Beschäftigung mit Fiktionen und Utopien ist nicht gerade en vogue. Erfolgreiche Transformationsbewegungen haben jedoch als Ausgangspunkt, dass ein anderes als das gegenwärtige Leben gewünscht wird oder vorstellbar ist – statt wie zur Zeit eine Hyperrealität als Zukunft zu akzeptieren. Leider können nur die wenigsten Menschen formulieren, in…

  • Homage to Bernie Sanders’ Democratic Socialism and George Orwell’s 1984, by Alan N. Shapiro

    Tom Moody comments (February 25th): Bernie Sanders’ version of socialism essentially reconstitutes the New Deal policies of Franklin D. Roosevelt: improved social security, more oversight of banks, support for labor. His opponents couch this as radical, which shows how far the pendulum has swung since Ronald Reagan fired the air traffic controllers and began the…

  • Radical skepticism and the logic of Shakespeare’s artistry, by Robert Schneider

    Robert Schneider is the author of a very important book-length reinterpretation of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice called Shylock, The Roman (Pulpless.com, 2001). I find this book to be very important as a basis for investigating the relationship between Shakespeare and Star Trek as twin canonical texts of what universities call “Western Civ.” I publish…

  • The Identity and Anxiety of Colonial Dublin in Joyce’s Dubliners, by James Shapiro

    The Identity and Anxiety of Colonial Dublin in Joyce’s Dubliners by James Shapiro (Editor’s Note: James Shapiro is a philosophy student at Boston University. He studied in Dublin during the Fall Semester 2010.) “Every night as I gazed up at the window I said softly to myself the word paralysis. It had always sounded strangely…

  • Journal Entry: The Void, by Mary Fox

    Journal Entry: The Void, by Mary Fox Introduction What follows is neither philosophical, nor academic. It is, however, both self-indulgent and self-referential, as a journal can only be. It presents no “truths” and it is peppered with inconsistencies and flaws, because I am. I began my journal in May of this year in an attempt…

  • Around the Town (a Sports Gambling story), part 1 of 4

    As they went inside Grand Central Station, Moe and Siggy saw more hurried commuters moving ahead with tunnel vision. Nobody wanted to look at the homeless. The bag ladies and street people would just put a damper on one’s day. Past the panhandlers and cup rattlers, the squeegee people, the sharks, and the Monte dealers,…

  • Nature: A Fragment, by Johann Wolfgang Goethe

    Gianna Maria Gatti: Rereading the reflections in which, at the end of the seventeenth century, Goethe voices his hymn to Nature, one acquires the sense of just how advanced is contemporary man in adding those ‘secrets’, in gaining access to that ‘forge’, in procuring those ‘powers’ which Goethe credits exclusively to the great artist Nature,…