Homo Vitruvius by A. Jay Adler

Homo Vitruvius by A. Jay Adler

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No Place You’ll Ever Be

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My great-grandfather Zakiah Melzer

* Greek ou "not" + topos "place"; from which the Modern Latin, via Thomas Moore, Utopia (“nowhere”)

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In last Monday’s Recs & Revs letter (usually paid, but free to all last week like this week) I wrote about my commitments as a writer, and that “thrownness, for each of us, individually, precedes the state, systems, and power. They may precede us in the world (though they didn’t always), but they don’t precede us in ourselves. That’s the place where I begin.” A statement like that has implications f…

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