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Curriculum Vitae

I am now writing on Medium, so I think something on the order of an introduction is called for.

7 min readJun 7, 2019

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Curriculum Vitae

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Spirit of the Garage, or Lost in the Gizz-verse

I 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 readJul 11, 2023

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Spirit of the Garage, or Lost in the Gizz-verse

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Laura Nelson

On the Ethics of Travel

I 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 readJun 28, 2023

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On the Ethics of Travel

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Laura Nelson

Apologies….

Hiya again…

1 min readMay 25, 2023

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Apologies….

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Laura Nelson

Knives and Gunfights and Dark Brandon

Debt ceiling crises are as periodic and predictable as El Niño. When the political atmosphere is plagued by the instability of a Republican…

6 min readMay 25, 2023

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Knives and Gunfights and Dark Brandon

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Laura Nelson

The Sinema Show (So Much for Federalism, Part 5)

Please forgive this horrible pun. I couldn’t help myself.

5 min readJan 17, 2022

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The Sinema Show (So Much for Federalism, Part 5)

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This World is Poison

Romantic Pessimism in The Psychedelic Furs’ Book of Days

7 min readOct 16, 2021

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This World is Poison

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Laura Nelson

The World Made Strange: Jasper Johns Between Expressionism and Pop

Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror, The Whitney Museum of Art, New York City, New York, September 29, 2021, through February 13, 2022

4 min readOct 6, 2021

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The World Made Strange: Jasper Johns Between Expressionism and Pop

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Laura Nelson

Hegel Among the Culture Warriors

Review of Molly Farneth, Hegel’s Social Ethics: Religion, Conflict, and Rituals of Reconciliation (Princeton University Press, 2018)

20 min readSep 25, 2021

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Hegel Among the Culture Warriors

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Laura Nelson

Midpoint on Jacob’s Ladder

Hodos anō katō mia kai hōutē. (The path up and down is one and the same.) — Heraclitus, Fragment 60

6 min readAug 24, 2021

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Midpoint on Jacob’s Ladder

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Laura Nelson

Laura Nelson

Writer, philosopher, information technologist,guitarist, neurotic, polite radical, avid and indiscriminate reader, Episcopalian, trans woman.

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