Archive - 2 + 2 = 5

June 2025

Tip-Off #215 - A Charged Field

"Art is the act of making choices in a charged field." - Dean Young, poet.

Jun 27 •

Tip-Off #214 - Divine Comedy, Gloomy Prophet

We are not punished for our evasion, but by it.

Jun 25 •

Tip-Off #213 - Written in Stone: Broken at Birth

The Ten Commandments

Jun 23 •

Time-Out — Chaos 2.0

When in doubt, manufacture chaos and call it momentum.

Jun 22 •

Tip-Off #212 - Fear and Hospitality

"Hospitality is culture itself and not simply one ethic amongst others." — Jacques Derrida, "On Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness."

Jun 19 •

Tip-Off #211 - Sore Truth

Constructive nostalgia.

Jun 15 •

Tip-Off #210 - Dancing on Quicksand

"For in much wisdom is much grief, and those that increase knowledge increase sorrow." - Ecclesiastes 1:18.

Jun 12 •

Tip-Off #209 - Authorship and the Ancient Debate

"If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I will answer you: I am here to live out loud." —after Émile Zola (1840-1902), moralist, leading…

Jun 8 •

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