Are You a Philosopher?

Andrew Rite: I've had this lifelong, a fascination with things that are broken. And so i began to think about why is there this european, western fascination with ruins and decayed monuments? This was the genesis of my first book, the pulic of ruins in renaissance literature. Aphorisms are one of the the most ubiquitous and the most ancient of literary forms. But it is also one of the most contemporary. We live in an age of instigram, of tick to vidios, of a twitter, of, um, a instant gratification,.