Thomas Brett
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Resonant Thoughts: James Rebanks’s “The Place Of Tides” (2025)
“Our lives are a series of choices – about what we do, and don’t do. Over time we decide what to let go of, what must die, and what we will fight to keep alive. Sometimes these are big, deliberate decisions, other times change happens in a thousand thoughtless little moments” (91). “There is no Continue reading
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Brett’s Sound Picks: Ezekiel Honig’s “Broken Time Can Go In Many Directions” (2025)
(Around 2002, when I was doing research for my dissertation, I saw Ezekiel Honig perform in a tiny bar on the lower east side. There were probably fifteen people at the set. At the time, performing electronic music using just a laptop and Ableton Live was a novel kind of musicianship. Honig’s music was built Continue reading
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Art As Search
(Rembrandt, A Scholar in his Study, c. 1640s) In 1998, when Google introduced their proprietary Internet search engine, the definition of the word search shifted. Searching had long been a laborious process of seeking carefully and thoroughly for information and insight on a topic. It took a lot work, usually by an individual with a Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Craig Mod’s “Things Become Other Things: A Walking Memoir” (2025)
“Mostly, I remember anti-patterns. Teaching in what-not-to-dos” (29). “Although I’m walking roads, I’m also walking this map representing things beyond what we can see. A layering deeper and weirder than we ever dreamed” (53). “A series of astonishments” (56). “And so each time I walk these routes, these same paths, the conversations come back as Continue reading
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