Design Your Life featured on Metropolis

Check out Goodwill Hunting on Metropolis.The piece features new paintings by Ellen.

Carl Schmitt's Hamlet or Hecuba

Carl Schmitt’s Hamlet Oder Hekuba: Der Einbruch der Zeit in das Spiel was published in 1956 and reprinted in German by Klett-Kotta in 1983. Portions were translated into English under the title, “The Source of the Tragic,” trans. David Pan, in a special issue of Telos 72 (Summer 1987): 133-52. ...read more…

Ellen Lupton (and Design Your Life) in the New York Times

Conference: German Reception of Shylock

Bate Biography of Shakespeare reviewed in NYT

Mark Taylor on Transforming the University

Shakespeare for Presidents

Bill Lupton turns 70

Extreme Urbanism: AdbouMaliq Simone and Teddy Cruz

Yesterday I attended a lecture by AbdouMaliq Simone, an urbanist and geographer who studies the forms of sociality that are sprouting up in the extreme environments of the global cities of Africa and Asia.

Ellen and Julia at the Googleplex in Mountainview

Religious Renaissance: At Indiana University

Curating the Self

If care of the self embraces diet, exercise, leg waxing, and the hot pursuit of philosophy in the bedroom, curating the self demands the strategic display and archiving of intellectual, social, or domestic projects — in the form of blogs, web pages, e-portfolios, or Facebook profiles.

Design Your Life available now

Our book is finally out, in time for Mother’s Day, spring cleaning, and bed time reading.

Richard Sennett on The Craftsmen

My orthodontist is reluctant to remove my braces. “You must understand,” he tells me, “that if another orthodontist sees your teeth, and asks who straightened them for you, it looks bad for me if they are not perfect.” Dr. Dayani doesn’t care that I paid off my braces a year ago. The extra sessions are not a concern to him. He just wants to do the job right.

Dr. Dayani is a true craftsman, in the sense put forward by Richard Sennett in his profound and beautiful book, The Craftsman.