Megan Power

The Red Tenda of Bologna by John Berger

"I should begin with how I loved him, in what manner, to what degree, with what kind of incomprehension."

Highway Gothic and Other Iconic Typefaces

The font most commonly used on road signs and highways in Canada and the U.S. is FHWA Series E Modified . This is a sans-serif font infor...
Birkhoff's Formula for Aesthetic Measure

Paul Octavious' s 51 books on love Mathematician George David Birkhoff (1884–1944) had a keen interest in aesthetics - ...
Labov's 6 Basic Elements of Storytelling

Classifying and delineating story patterns is a vast field of study, but one of the most influential theories was written in 1972 by socioli...
On n’y voit rien by Daniel Arasse

"In a series of terribly clever essays framed as imagined conversations and letters, art historian Daniel Arasse analyzes som...
J.G. Ballard's Death of Affect

British novelist J.G. Ballard wrote the postmodernist classic Crash and coined the phrase "Death of Affect". 'Affect' i...