Angelus Novus’ Eyesight: On Benjamin’s Aesthetic Mysticism
Paul Klee’s Angelus Novus design is used by Benjamin as a metaphor to describe the link between progress and catastrophe.
Blue Labyrinths
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Adorno on Pleasure, 2: Purpose and Play
In part 1, we saw Adorno reject the bourgeois disgust with sexuality and instinctual urges through his engagement with Freud Continue reading
Art, Temporality and “Motions of the Mind”
Grossman and the Greeks “’Everything flows, everything changes,’ said the Greek. But this is not evident from the little mounds Continue reading
Adorno on Pleasure, 1: The Critique of Psychoanalysis
Theodor Adorno, the Arch-curmudgeon of the Frankfurt School of Critical theory, devotes a brief but substantial section of his Minima Continue reading
Foams and Networks: Sloterdijk and Latour’s Atmospheric Philosophies
This is Sloterdijk’s explicitness: You are on life support, it’s fragile, it’s technical, it’s public, it’s political, it could break Continue reading
The Question Concerning Memes
In what follows we shall be questioning concerning memes. Our question is: what is the essence of the meme? According Continue reading
The Idea of Just Punishment in Buddhism and Utilitarianism
What is Justice?If we pay 1,000 yen and are given something worth 500 yen, we will complain, angry. If we Continue reading
Against the Computational Model of the Mind
Despite Western thought’s persistence to the effect, there are nevertheless reasons to doubt the idea that the mind comes in Continue reading
