PinnedLaura NelsonCurriculum VitaeI am now writing on Medium, so I think something on the order of an introduction is called for.7 min read·Jun 7, 2019--4--4
Laura NelsonSpirit of the Garage, or Lost in the Gizz-verseI have the distinct privilege of having played my trusty Hagstrom II guitar (quite badly) in several Long Island-based garage bands back in…·5 min read·Jul 11, 2023----
Laura NelsonOn the Ethics of TravelI have always been ambivalent about travel at best and terrified of it at worst. Part of this is due to my reflexive worrying and…·10 min read·Jun 28, 2023----
Laura NelsonKnives and Gunfights and Dark BrandonDebt ceiling crises are as periodic and predictable as El Niño. When the political atmosphere is plagued by the instability of a Republican…·6 min read·May 25, 2023----
Laura NelsonThe Sinema Show (So Much for Federalism, Part 5)Please forgive this horrible pun. I couldn’t help myself.·5 min read·Jan 17, 2022--1--1
Laura NelsonThis World is PoisonRomantic Pessimism in The Psychedelic Furs’ Book of Days·7 min read·Oct 16, 2021----
Laura NelsonThe World Made Strange: Jasper Johns Between Expressionism and PopJasper Johns: Mind/Mirror, The Whitney Museum of Art, New York City, New York, September 29, 2021, through February 13, 2022·4 min read·Oct 6, 2021----
Laura NelsonHegel Among the Culture WarriorsReview of Molly Farneth, Hegel’s Social Ethics: Religion, Conflict, and Rituals of Reconciliation (Princeton University Press, 2018)·20 min read·Sep 25, 2021----
Laura NelsonMidpoint on Jacob’s LadderHodos anō katō mia kai hōutē. (The path up and down is one and the same.) — Heraclitus, Fragment 60·6 min read·Aug 24, 2021--1--1