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
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“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.
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
Art, Technology and Truth in Martin Heidegger’s Thought
In mythology, autochthones (from Ancient Greek αὐτός “self,” and χθών “soil”; i.e. “people sprung from earth itself”) are those mortals Continue reading
Blue Labyrinths 