New Sci-fi Media, Anti-Hauntology, and the Future of Cinema
Faceshopping: Deconstructed Club and the Queer Futurity In February 2021, after electronic musician SOPHIE’s death, Matt Bluemink wrote a blog Continue reading
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Motorway: Transformative Ethics of the Car
A boundless landscape, roads stretching far beyond the horizon. Wind in the hair, the sky overhead, and society somewhere far Continue reading
Regimes of Visibility: Gerhard Richter at the De Young Museum
When some years ago the De Young Museum in San Francisco was preparing to reopen in a new building, the Continue reading
“Why Are You so Bad, Bro?”: Theory of the Avatar
Freedom is an online performance by Eva and Franco Mattes. Its setting is the infamous FPS video game Counter-Strike. Eva, as Continue reading
Digital Reincarnation: LuYang NetiNeti
In September 2022, London’s Zabludowicz Collection opened its doors to the “disorientating and darkly humorous worlds” created by the highly Continue reading
Not All Art is Beautiful (and That’s Good)
Hans Holbein’s portrait The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb (from 1521, now in the Basel Kunstmuseum) is, Continue reading
Semiotics of the End: Turbo-Violence
The image cannot present itself without a certain force, without a certain amount of violence. The image must always remove, Continue reading
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 