catapult magazine

Items tagged progress

• Race against ignorance

  Wendell Berry's Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition cautions against science as religion and creation as a set of statistics.

• The memory palaces of Joseph Cornell

  Exploring the philosophy of an artist whose collage work is suggestive about the nature of time and memory.

• Grant’s recommendations 12.28.07

  The film adaptation of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, an epic composition performed by the Kronos Quartet and an opera about the making of an atomic bomb.

• No stopping or standing

  Electing a leader of color is a signpost on a journey, not a destination.

• To see the fissures and 
hear the rumblings

  A review of 
The BQE, a film by Sufjan Stevens.

• Progress defamed

  On art’s capacity to illuminate the stories we tell about ourselves and the myths of progress.

• What’s the real issue here?

  Questioning both the wholesale acceptance and critique of progress.

• Midnight Oil’s progress apocalypse

  Recalling the enduring relevance of the Australian band’s warning cry.

• A time to lament

  The back story and a liturgy for a series of services of lament held by Peace Christian Reformed Church in South Holland, Illinois.

• 16 thoughts for 16 stanzas

  Holding up Wendell Berry’s mad farmer manifesto to the paradigm of progress.