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Category: HiLo Heroes

Highbrows, lowbrows, nobrows, hilobrows.

James Schuyler

By: Franklin Bruno

Clarity and balance, not disorientation, were his artistic mainsprings.

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Joel McCrea

By: Brian Berger

Handsome, quick-witted and casually virtuous.

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Gershon Legman

By: Devin McKinney

He took seriously the most flippant of two-liners and shaggy-bush stories.

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Edward Said

By: Anthony Miller

His filiations : the world, the text, and the critic.

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Helmut Newton

By: William Nericcio

Erotically charged mises-en-scène that make us think.

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Michael Collins

By: Robert Wringham

The remotest and loneliest astronaut.

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Robert Pollard

By: Anthony Miller

His songs number in the thousands.

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Grace Slick

By: Devin McKinney

Spooky intelligence and challenging eroticism.

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Toto Koopman

By: Elina Shatkin

A gamine beauty with a fearless personality.

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Andrei Bely

By: Tor Aarestad

The mind and lived experience, interleaved!

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Oscar Wilde

By: Joshua Glenn

He defended artifice and imagination vs. the so-called “natural.”

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Friedrich Nietzsche

By: Joshua Glenn

“Are we not straying as though through an infinite nothingness?”

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Michel Foucault

By: Mark Kingwell

He saw how institutions and apparatuses order daily life and desire.

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Pert Kelton

By: Franklin Bruno

Her chorines, molls, and paroled hookers know their onions.

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Hannah Arendt

By: Mark Kingwell

She defended an Aristotelian concept of human flourishing.

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