Howard Hughes: Prototype For the Global Citizen By John David Ebert 1. Howard Hughes was the prototype for a new kind of human being: nomadic, uprooted, cityless, wandering, Hughes prefigured the coming inhabitant of our global aeropolis, the transurban world of “no-place” that has come to displace the traditional container of the geographically bounded cities […]
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On The Maltese Falcon
The Maltese Falcon: An Archaeology of Ancient Images By John David Ebert 1. Every noir narrative begins with a corpse, and in the present case, we are confronted with the dead body of one “Miles Archer,” a man whom, we soon discover, was the partner of Sam Spade. Together, the pair ran a private detective agency […]