In his novel Ulysses, James Joyce writes: “Any object, intensely regarded, may be a gate of access.” This simple yet profound idea has stayed with me for years, and every time I revisit it, I uncover new depths. Joyce’s notion of a “gate of access” resonates strongly with the transformative power of metaphor, which lies…
In the process of writing up some new course proposals, I discovered some old writing I’d never sent out. The ideas are still present for me, so I offer them to you. I think we can all feel it: the rumblings of change are happening all around us. Of course, change is part of life,…
One of my favorite art quotes comes from the philosopher Herbert Marcuse. In The Aesthetic Dimension, he writes: “Art breaks open a dimension inaccessible to other experience, a dimension in which human beings, nature, and things no longer stand under the established reality principle…The encounter with the truth of art happens in the estranging language…
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