Ian Gonsher·Feb 10The Holy DialecticO’ Yisrael, your name means struggle. The Name! The Name! O’ Yisrael, your name is their kampf. Come and see, this solemn dialectic…
Ian Gonsher·Oct 17, 2025Progress Isn’t a Race; It’s a MergeIt’s a hot day in Massachusetts, and for miles and miles in both directions, you find yourself stuck on a constipated highway. We’re all in…
Ian Gonsher·Aug 7, 2025My $75 Art CollectionArt collecting — especially at its most exploitative — is often seen as a privilege of the elite. To the cynical observer…
Ian Gonsher·May 24, 2025Discourse is sacred.Martin Buber says in I and Thou that, ‘Spirit is not in the I, but between I and Thou.’ It is that space between; between neshamot (souls)…
Ian Gonsher·Jan 5, 2025Poetry After AuschwitzIt was cold. It was dark. Two travelers huddled together, trying to capture as much warmth as their shivering bodies could retain. The…
Ian Gonsher·Apr 28, 2024Public Art as Public Good: Selected WorksA public good is a good that is non-excludable and non-rivalrous. This means that no one can be excluded from using it, and consumption by…
Ian Gonsher·Aug 3, 2022The Emergence of Spirit in Extended Reality and the Speculative SynagogueThese words, which pass through your consciousness as you read them, as they passed through mine as I write them, are divine. They are…A response icon2A response icon2
Ian Gonsher·May 11, 2022“Musca Depicta” (2022)Why not swat that fly? Perhaps it bugs you, as bugs are wont to do. Perhaps it agitates around you, as it invades your space without any…
InPositive Sum DesignbyIan Gonsher·Jul 22, 2021An Interview with the CEO of ElephantInterviewer: Thank you for agreeing to do this interview. Before we begin, what is your preferred pronoun? CEO of Elephant: I could be…
