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This week, the editors celebrate Wayne Koestenbaum’s essay on the art of the fugue, “Notes on Not Now,” which appeared in the magazine’s pages in December 1995. Koestenbaum’s conversation with countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo will be released tomorrow as part of the online video series “Artists On Writers | Writers On Artists,” a copresentation of Artforum
and Bookforum.
“I am confused about the spirit of the age,” Wayne Koestenbaum confesses in his incandescent and hilarious he would likely prefer the word hysterical essay “Notes on Not Now.” Playing inside the form of the fugue both the musical composition and that muggy state of mind the piece muses on what, or who, signals the contemporary. In a culture that embroiders its currency with revivals and republications, comebacks and recirculations, is there no time not like the present? As ever, Koestenbaum’s measure of a moment is prompted by matters of language. Here, a scholar’s mention of “iconoph
Thought experiments Shiv Visvanathan | | Published 23.04.21, 01:11 AM
The idea of India was once evoked quite often. People felt India as a nation, a civilization, and a democracy had a message for the world. The Nehruvian idea of democracy seemed effervescent and alive. Today, a few decades later, we have to confess that the idea of India is nostalgia, reduced to a lifeless flicker by the Bharatiya Janata Party regime. One cannot even say, ‘India is dead. Long live India’, with confidence in traditional norms because the idea of India has run dry.
The literal combination of autocracy, mediocrity and incompetence that the BJP brought to the table has devastated us. Narendra Modi behaves like a Vladimir Putin or a Donald Trump without realizing that they too have destroyed the institutions that sustained their
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