Knowing Too Much: The Epistemics of Intimacy
December 29, 2022 John A. Teske After a long intimacy with someone, one has learned a lot, both about oneself and about another. Part of...
Gravity & Flight
21 July 2022 Talk about a pregnant moment, gravid with significance. Two years ago, on this day in the early months of a worldwide...
Sex and The Commons I: The Erosion of the Common Good
I taught college for most of four decades, and it just seems to me that these sentiments have become alien to citizens of a nation for...
Naked, and You Clothed Me
One of the most iconic images of the Vietnam war era was of the “Napalm Girl,” Phan Thi Kim Phuc, her clothes burned away by American...
Family Drama
“This Be the Verse,” by Philip Larkin, 1971 They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the...
Intimacy and Habituation: We Need to Talk
One of the problems with exploring the neuroscience behind any kind of human experience is the fear that doing so is reductive, and turns...
You're Breaking Up
We use the phrase “you’re breaking up” too often these days to simply mean (or occasionally just pretend) that an electronic signal...
History of Love II: Religion and Eros
"Love cannot be disembodied even in its most sanctified forms, nor is it without sanctity even in its most fleshly." Thomas Mann, The...
History of Love I: Myths of Love
One of my favorite Greek myths is that of Eros and Psyche. Eros was a god, the son of Aphrodite. He is a handsome young man, not the...