
Aphelis 2015: Year in Review
2015 was a slower year for Aphelis, with fewer posts published than in previous years. This is due mostly to the fact that my time and energy were invested in the completion of my dissertation. The final document was submitted in September of this year. The oral examination is set for January of 2016. Yet, […]

Aphelis 2014: Year in Review
Among other things, the end of the year is an opportunity for me to look back at what I wrote on this site in the past 12 months. For the 2014 edition, I’m adding a few words of comment to the traditional selection of significants posts (see previously 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010). Those comments are […]

New Year 1967, by Josef Koudelka
☛ Magnum Photos: New Year 1967, Prague, Czechoslovakia, by Josef Koudelka. Image Reference KOJ1967001W00250/X (PAR289988). © Josef Koudelka/Magnum Photos. • • • Below is a short selection of the posts I’ve published here in 2013. Some of them develop an argument about a specific topic, while others document an item of interest (previous yearly recaps: […]

Introducing Aphelis Newsletter
☛ Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Online Catalog: “Post Office Department. Dead Letter Mail, Supt. Marvin McLean and Mrs. Clara R.A. Nelson”, 1917, 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in., Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-hec-08119 (digital file from original). Public domain. The report was this: that Bartleby had been a subordinate clerk in the […]