Tag Archives: Self-Representation

Focusing on the wrong things, or: The fatal flaw of selfies

Posted on May 27, 2021 by Peter Kruschwitz

I wrote this piece in 2018. No idea why I never pressed “publish”. Well, dear world, here you are! I made a couple of additions, marked in the text by square brackets. A particularly fashionable form of contemporary (amateur) photography, … Continue reading →

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When it rains, it pours (Or: Don’t just do something, stand there!)

Posted on February 16, 2014 by Peter Kruschwitz

The Roman historian Tacitus, in his work Agricola in the context a passage that comments on the British isles’ multus umor terrarum caelique (‘the excessive moisture of the soil and of the atmosphere’) famously writes (Tac. Agr. 12): Caelum crebris … Continue reading →

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