Category: Probes

Historical inquiries, language audits, and counterfoil research. Poetics on the warpath.

  • Symbolic vs. Historical Truth

    Symbolic vs. Historical Truth

    In 1938, Abraham Maslow lived with the Blackfoot (Siksika) Nation in southern Alberta for six weeks. Has it generated a modern myth that is still, somehow, meaningful and truthful?

  • Four Views of Earth from the Moon

    Four Views of Earth from the Moon

    Stewart Brand, Martin Heidegger, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Ivan Illich each saw something different.

  • Vula / Vela

    Vula / Vela

    A poem that situates two South African histories next to each other: Operation Vula and Vela Hotel. What questions do these parallel lines raise?