As the superstar-magician walks through an urban shanty in the middle of his television special Magic Man (1998), David Blaine’s…
Dangerous doubles and magical ethics
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Laws of gender: Parody and resistance in times of scandal
This essay begins with a tale of two cardinals. It’s not the story you’re expecting.
The stakes of attention
When we think of the ways of “generating an experience of full attentiveness” in devotional contexts we often tend to…
Practice and performance in ritual language
Does it make a difference to think of ritual language such as prayer in terms of a relation between practice…
How to do things in with words
Bejan revisits early modern times of extreme verbal violence, sectarianism, and bloodshed with an eye on our own. Her brilliant…
The artist and presence
Much ink, real and digital, has been spent on the closing of the Marina Abramović retrospective The Artist is Present.…
The Little Death
This Friday, musician Matt Marks's "post-Christian nihilist pop opera" The Little Death will be staged at Galapagos Art Space in…