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 →

On Marble, Texture and Networks

i. “How many million times she had seen her face, and always with the same imperceptible contraction! She pursed her Continue reading →

Semiotics of the End: Welcome to the Virtual Plaza

Like factories, shopping centres today exist only to efface their omnipresence. After “society as a whole takes the appearance of Continue reading →

Our Desert Islands: Deleuze, Sloterdijk, and the Pandemic

An older version of this article was originally published at 3:AM Magazine. You can find the original here. “Islands are Continue reading →

Proxies as Ideology: The Hidden Social Violence of Delegation

Proxies are a necessary method of creating efficiencies in the complex social and technical processes characteristic of modern life. A Continue reading →

Georges Bataille and the Continuity of Life

What is life? To the historian, writer, and occultist George Bataille, life is a ‘door into existence’ revealing to us Continue reading →

Trash Theory: The “Young-Girl” Deployment

Premiers Matériaux pour une Théorie de la Jeune-Fille I just found this weird little book. It’s been referenced here and Continue reading →

Semiotics of the End: Boredom at the End of the World

Dreams about the end of the world are not, perhaps, anymore the fruits of despair and fear alone. They are Continue reading →