Public Books
Jun 2012
A conversation on the “bedeviling sorts of indeterminacies one encounters the deeper one drills.”
A conversation on the “bedeviling sorts of indeterminacies one encounters the deeper one drills.”
The author muses on the markers we use to identify ourselves and other people – from names to photographs to fingerprints.
Noel Morris’s place in history? Noel Morris was my older brother, who had dropped out of MIT and spent most of his waking hours holed up in an apartment working at a computer terminal. This was in the ‘60s, long before there was anything close to a home computer. The name Tom Van Vleck was not unfamiliar. He was a friend of my brother’s who worked with him at MIT in those days. I called him.
A profile of Sabrina Harman, the soldier who took many of the notorious Abu Ghraib photographs.
Through a series of interviews and historical inquiries, Errol Morris dissects Anosognosia, ”a condition in which a person who suffers from a disability seems unaware of or denies the existence of his or her disability.”