Author: Mark Kingwell
Mark Kingwell is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto whose most recent book is Question Authority: A Polemic About Trust in Five Meditations (Biblioasis).
Wyndham Lewis
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He called the United States a “moronic inferno,” a phrase that stuck.
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A Veblenesque tartness, underwritten by a sincere commitment to a better world.
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Jean-François Lyotard
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He urged an endless, playful agonistics of intellectual engagement.
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He analyzed the motives of every act, including the act of analysis.
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Desire seeks the Real but is trapped in the Symbolic order of language and representation.
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