Category: Current Events
Notre Dame de Paris as Symbol and Simulacrum
N.B. This is a longer version of an article I originally published on Play the Past on Thursday, April 18, 2019, under the title “The Cathedral and the Simulacrum”. “Never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.” John Donne, Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, 1624. Staring bewildered at the images Notre