Join Robert Sullivan to map our situation, considering ecological, political, and economic ecologies, and investigate our position on the cusp of two major estuaries — the Hudson / Raritan and the Delaware — exploring the differences between the city to the north and the city to the south, looking at how these things connect and / or disconnect…

We will consider the part played by circumstantial detail in narrative through a 200-year-old essay by Thomas De Quincey, two stories by Jorge Luís Borges, and a recent essay. Here again the question will be the media by which we make meaning, the proofs by which we render art or testimony plausible.