Circa 1900-1910. “Yard of tenement, New York City.” Hung out to dry somewhere in Manhattan. Detroit Publishing Company glass negative. This is a guest post by Chris Travers. This article represents a collection of my thoughts and views on neo-tribalism, as well as notes about what is required to make a community successful. Everyone has their own perspective, and this is mine. I offer it here in the hope that by contemplating, grappling with, and challenging the ideas herein, this
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New Orleans circa 1937. “Courtyard at 1133-1135 Chartres Street.” Young and old, hangin’ with the laundry. The head count here is three, the foot count nine. 8×10 acetate negative by Frances Benjamin Johnston. Thanatos was the personification of Death in Greek mythology, and is perhaps now better known as the name ascribed to Sigmund Freud’s “death drive”. Freud understood thanatos as a psychological drive that causes human beings to act in self-destructive ways, or to “lead organic life back into
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