Rediscovering the Past: The Value of Rereading Books
“A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a Continue reading
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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
Becoming-insect through Clarice Lispector’s “The passion according to G.H.”
If I confirm my self and consider myself truthful, I’ll be lost because I won’t know where to inlay my Continue reading
Mad(e) Men: Historicism and History as Told Through Period Drama and TV
In the medium of the movies (what used to be short for moving pictures) there is something called an establishing 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
Transcendental Cinema: When the Camera Turns Upon Itself
This essay is intended as a series of case studies following the ideas I presented on the “Quixote Sub Specie Continue reading
The Hypocrisy of American Art Institutions: An Elegant Protest
The recent controversy surrounding this year’s Whitney Biennial and its leading to the removal of tear gas profiteer Warren Kanders Continue reading
Blue Labyrinths 