VirusHead - Mutating bits of contagious discourse, because language is a virus.

I’m in a mood for Flaubert. I love the way he searched endlessly for le mot juste (the exact - uniquely correct - word, the most precisely accurate language). Sometimes he found the words that evoked and carried more truth than any fact could possibly do.

Love art. Of all lies, it is the least [...]

Slavoj Žižek makes a very interesting defense of atheism in the editorial “Defenders of the Faith” (New York Times, 3/12/06). Certainly atheism deserves the restoration of the inherent dignity of its position. But his overall argument, at least in the context of our current realities, is flawed. It could be a readerly effect, since the [...]