The Music That Named the Distance

The Music That Named the Distance

London, October 1982There is a club on Meard Street in Soho that opened this year. The Batcave. I have been three times now, standing in the back where the sound is slightly less total, watching something happen that I recognize from other moments in other centuries:...
The Black Sun: What Authority Becomes

The Black Sun: What Authority Becomes

Various, consolidatedEvery century I have moved through has produced its particular version of the same configuration: a system of authority that begins with a claim to legitimacy, accumulates power on the basis of that claim, and eventually uses the accumulated power...