Gathering Up the Symbolic Losses of Modernity
Scott Beauchamp on the book of all books.
Scott Beauchamp
Scott Beauchamp’s writing has appeared in The Paris Review, American Affairs, and Bookforum, among other places. His book Did You Kill Anyone? is forthcoming from Zero Books.
Articles
Paul Kingsnorth's Green Götterdämmerung
Scott Beauchamp on the final installment of the Buccmaster Trilogy.
Simone Weil's Beautiful Shipwreck
Scott Beauchamp on Simone Weil's double vision.
All Ages Have Their Signature Afflictions
Scott Beauchamp on the late modern disappearance of rituals.
The Mark of a Sacramentalist
Scott Beauchamp on Homer, time, and the Welsh poet David Jones.
Roberto Calasso and the Progress of the Novel
Scott Beauchamp on Roberto Calasso's achievement and the future of the novel.
The American Book of the Dead
Scott Beauchamp on Don DeLillo's White Noise as the ultimate quarantine read.
The Consumer's Regress
Scott Beauchamp on the spiritual twists and turns of crass consumerism.
Byung-Chul Han's Sinking Cargo Cult of Meaning
Scott Beauchamp plumbs Byung-Chul Han's new direction.
Our New World Without Kith or Kin
Scott Beauchamp, author of the forthcoming "Did You Kill Anyone?," breaks down the Second Demographic Transition's plague of lonely deaths.
War Is Boring
Scott Beauchamp on the boredom of war and modern life.
Gripping the Book of Nature's Reality
Scott Beauchamp follows the guidance of Simone Weil to come to grips with how reality grasps us.
Vaporwave and Simone Weil's Void
Scott Beauchamp, writer and author of the forthcoming "Did You Kill Anyone?," introduces the vaporwave aesthetic as a compliment to Simone Weil's mysticism.