In This Issue
![Cabinets of Curiosities](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/dragon-cropped.png)
![Dick Pics for Sacred Healing: A Meditation on the Provenance of Objects](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/01_votive_hand-1024x1024.jpg)
Dick Pics for Sacred Healing: A Meditation on the Provenance of Objects
An investigation into the functionality and symbolism of a mysterious gold penis
![Ghost: How I Learned About White Feminism](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/AnonMeiFoo-1024x768.jpg)
Ghost: How I Learned About White Feminism
"She dodges responsibility like the type of abruptly swooping ghost seen in movies."
![It's in the Cloud: Miasma, Healthcare.gov, and Computing](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Cholera_art.jpg)
It's in the Cloud: Miasma, Healthcare.gov, and Computing
The history of health in clouds, from miasmas to digital healthcare and "cloud campuses"
![Judging the Lover by the Cover](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Sofi_Tractatus-644x1024.jpg)
Judging the Lover by the Cover
A targeted system of textual seduction: trap yourself an NYC intellectual.
![Monthly Ekphrastic: <em>The Peaceable Kingdom</em>](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Peaceable-Kingdom_MJB-1024x761.jpg)
![Monthly Ekphrastic: Albert Bierstadt’s <i>Mount Hood</i>](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Mount_Hood_MJB-1024x691.jpg)
Monthly Ekphrastic: Albert Bierstadt’s Mount Hood
Were it a religion or at least a lifestyle I would like to be baptized into Luminism.
![Monthly Ekphrastic: Constantin Brancusi’s <i>The Miracle (Seal [1])</i>](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Brancusi_1-1024x767.jpg)
Monthly Ekphrastic: Constantin Brancusi’s The Miracle (Seal [1])
Like a slug erect and slimeless.
![Monthly Ekphrastic: GIF from Alice Suret-Canale’s <i>Hour Hour Minute Minute</i>](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/200w_d-1.gif)
Monthly Ekphrastic: GIF from Alice Suret-Canale’s Hour Hour Minute Minute
Large Disaster Small Disaster
![Monthly Ekphrastic: Jitish Kallat’s <i>Annexation</i>](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/IMG_1923-576x1024.png)
Monthly Ekphrastic: Jitish Kallat’s Annexation
I’m trying to glide / through the halls of the museum / like a low-budge pixelated ghost.
![Monthly Ekphrastic: Nora Jane Slade's <i>What</i>](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/03_what-1024x683.jpg)
![Monthly Ekphrastic: Opening of <em>Sonic Arcade: Shaping Space with Sound</em> at the Museum of Arts and Design](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/03_Super_Mode_MJB-1024x768.jpg)
Monthly Ekphrastic: Opening of Sonic Arcade: Shaping Space with Sound at the Museum of Arts and Design
However, it is Fragile and Unique
![Monthly Ekphrastic: Pablo Gonzalez’s Dog and Squirrel Mural](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/MJB_DogSquirrel-1024x768.jpg)
Monthly Ekphrastic: Pablo Gonzalez’s Dog and Squirrel Mural
The painter requests that you imagine / this other reality busting through
![Monthly Ekphrastic: Photograph from Robert Frank’s <i>London/Wales</i>](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/01_frank_photo-1024x687.jpg)
Monthly Ekphrastic: Photograph from Robert Frank’s London/Wales
"Here is a question we all must ask: / if we found ourselves below / a London underpass on some sunlit / morning or bright late afternoon / in the decade after the war"
![Preserving Culture, or a Brief History of the Jackalope](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/jackalope-postcard.jpg)
Preserving Culture, or a Brief History of the Jackalope
Commercial tourism and the great America that never was
![Re-Enacting Whiteness](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/hearse-1024x768.jpg)
![Signs of Winter](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/1b-turnip1.jpg)
![Spiritual Principles and Laboratory Work: The Wondrous History of Alchemy](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/alchemy-lede-2-1024x852.jpg)
Spiritual Principles and Laboratory Work: The Wondrous History of Alchemy
Chemical philosophers, Galenists, and mechanists war over the meaning of scientific inquiry in early modern Europe.
![Success Sans Tragedy: the Story of Katy Perry](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Katy-Perry-Plastered-Smile.jpg)
Success Sans Tragedy: the Story of Katy Perry
Tragedy, authenticity, and quality in Katy Perry's Part of Me and their relation to dominant narratives of the artist.
![The Christmas Bush](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/15804139846_9dc935ea64_z.jpg)
![The Glass Coffin](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Lego-Store.jpg)
The Glass Coffin
Never let it be said that a man once unceremoniously barred from the Ivy League cannot travel far and rise to great heights.
![The Mechanical Age: Automata between social critique and the uncanny](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Tuerkischer_schachspieler_windisch4.jpg)
The Mechanical Age: Automata between social critique and the uncanny
The uneasy space between human and machine in late 18th century Europe
![The Monthly Ekphrastic: Jessi Reaves’s <em>Watertight Shelf With Zippers</em>](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/shelf_full-1024x683.jpg)
The Monthly Ekphrastic: Jessi Reaves’s Watertight Shelf With Zippers
![The Monthly Ekphrastic: Lucy Sparrow’s <em>8 ‘till late</em>](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/03_bodega_window.jpg)
![The Monthly Ekphrastic: Martha Friedman’s <em>Two Person Operating System</em>](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Friedman_5-1024x767.jpg)
The Monthly Ekphrastic: Martha Friedman’s Two Person Operating System
My/Your Body Is and Is Not Like a Machine
![The Monthly Ekphrastic: Portrait of the Artist & a Vacuum](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/artist_and_vacuum_detail-1024x803.png)
The Monthly Ekphrastic: Portrait of the Artist & a Vacuum
Poems in response to Kerry James Marshall's Portrait of the Artist & a Vacuum
![The Robber Bridegroom](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/muir_woods.jpg)
The Robber Bridegroom
In the hour before she left, the old woman set about putting her house in order.
![The Trump Who Cried Witch: Unruly Language and the American Witch Hunt](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Salem-warrant-650.jpg)
The Trump Who Cried Witch: Unruly Language and the American Witch Hunt
Speech, defamation, and witchcraft (on Twitter and in the transcripts of the Salem Witch Trials)
![Things a mermaid owns](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/ariels-cave-1024x768.jpg)
![Things Found in the Bottom of Purses](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/87797082_XS.jpg)
![Things Worth Burning](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Matchbook-1024x682.jpg)
![Treasonous Transmissions and the Death of <i>Clue</i>'s Singing Telegram Girl](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/telegram.jpg)
Treasonous Transmissions and the Death of Clue's Singing Telegram Girl
electronic presence and Clue
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