Hierarchy in Early Modern Culture: Dante’s Divine Comedy and Boccaccio’s Decameron

Roughly and historically speaking, Renaissance, Reformation, and the Copernican Revolution are found nearly at the same time in European history. Continue reading →

Recurring Dreams and Collective Unconscious: An Interview with Alex Zhang Hungtai

In I Had Nowhere to Go, director Jonas Mekas’ diary-like collection of writings covering his life from the abandonment of his Continue reading →

Terminal Velocity: The Cultural Logic of the Dance Music Edit

The presence of the edit looms large in today’s UK dance music scene. Also called bootlegs, refixes and reworks, edits Continue reading →

Gender Bubble: A Few Points from Judith Butler Explained via a Sexually Ambiguous Clownfish

For clownfish of the subfamily Amphiprioninae, sexual development is determined by social hierarchy in an arrangement known as sequential hermaphroditism. Continue reading →

The Impossible Made Possible

The Impossible Have you ever seen a haired turtle or a horned rabbit? Or for that matter, have you ever Continue reading →

The Story-Creature Anomaly: Jeff Vandermeer and Digital Ecosystems

There’s an argument to be made about how narratives shape our perception of many things. A story can go beyond Continue reading →

Derrida’s Account on Hospitality

We are currently experiencing a worldwide population flood. Many Western countries are grappling with one of the most pressing problems: Continue reading →

Give Up the Future: Organ Tapes and Tiqqun

By Lorenzo CirnigliaroTranslated by Alessandro Sbordoni In a previous article, entitled Born in the Lost Future, I tried to make Continue reading →