Tag Archives: Persecution and the Art of Writing

Persecution and the Art of Writing the return to an ancient problem

Posted on April 24, 2015 by lawrence serewicz

The story of the Bangladeshi writers who were hacked to death has not drawn as much attention as the Charlie Hebdo attack even though they share some similarities. The Bangladeshi writers wanted to write about atheism and to question the … Continue reading →

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Hyperlinks, Leo Strauss and the return of esoteric writing

Posted on May 31, 2012 by lawrence serewicz

I have been thinking recently about the phrase “Hyperlinks subvert hierarchies.”  I argued in an earlier blog that this was not the case.  I suggested that hyperlinks reflect hierarchies and those hierarchies are networks.  In that approach, I only considered … Continue reading →

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