Star Wars Modern

I've never liked the term #PostModern - not because of the styles & Ideologies it is attached to, but because I question the premise...

Artificial Companionship: Kitchen phone; Paro   ( Part 1 ) Imagine you walked into your mother's kitchen and you found her on t...

Engaging Stares: HAL 9000 (1968); Marina Abramovic (2010) A while back the New York Times art critic, Roberta Smith, complained again...

Sith Architecture: Le Corbusier and Star Wars  (Return to Part 5) When I originally sent David the link to my essay,  Star Wars: A Ne...

Rachel Whiteread, One Hundred Spaces (1995); David explaining Do Ho Suh's  Home Within Home prototype  (2011) (Return to Part 4 )...

Mouse Trap vs mind trap For those in the US: Happy Thanksgiving. I just wanted to put up a short Kitchen post today for those sneakin...

David Brin's Postmen; David Brin with Nick Cave's post-men  (Return to Part 3 ) After visiting the Serra installation at Gagos...

John Powers. Spiral Jedi (2008); Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty (1972)  (Return to Part 2 ) As David , Cheryl and I were leaving the Ri...

Cover art for David Brin's 2nd Book,  Startide Rising ; David Brin at Gagosian Gallery in front of Richard Serra's sculpture Ju...

The cover art of the first David Brin book I can remember reading: Sundiver ; David and I talking on the Highline 25 years later. ...

Clement Greenberg as a Sith; installation view of Make/Believe and Benthic Empire I am going to be giving a talk on Star Wars and Mini...

Trekky; Trotsky When I was in my early 20s all my friends were returning from trips to Europe telling stories about what rubes Ameri...