In 1971, a crowd of ten people congregated after hours in an art gallery, F-Space in Santa Ana, California. They were there to watch the artist, Chris Burden, get shot. The bullet was supposed to only graze his arm, but it produced a slightly more severe injury. The few materials that record the…
Author: Angelica Modabber
Angelica is a PhD candidate in the Italian and Comparative Literature departments at Columbia University. She received her BA in English from Barnard College and her research focuses on the history of science and religion in the 17th century.
Fertility and Consent in Machiavelli’s Writing
Today Machiavelli is known almost exclusively as a political thinker, but to his contemporaries he was also an expert on herbs and poisons. Though his medicinal writings no longer exist, Machiavelli is cited twice in 16th-century manuals as an expert on spider poison. Likely, he would have been extremely familiar with the early modern…