Gilles Deleuze, A Stoic
When one thinks of Gilles Deleuze, Stoicism might not be the first thing that comes to mind. The French philosopher Continue reading
Blue Labyrinths
An online magazine focusing on philosophy, culture, and a collection of interesting ideas.
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.
Adorno on Pleasure, 2: Purpose and Play
In part 1, we saw Adorno reject the bourgeois disgust with sexuality and instinctual urges through his engagement with Freud Continue reading
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
Adorno on Pleasure, 1: The Critique of Psychoanalysis
Theodor Adorno, the Arch-curmudgeon of the Frankfurt School of Critical theory, devotes a brief but substantial section of his Minima Continue reading
Foams and Networks: Sloterdijk and Latour’s Atmospheric Philosophies
This is Sloterdijk’s explicitness: You are on life support, it’s fragile, it’s technical, it’s public, it’s political, it could break Continue reading
The Question Concerning Memes
In what follows we shall be questioning concerning memes. Our question is: what is the essence of the meme? According Continue reading
The Idea of Just Punishment in Buddhism and Utilitarianism
What is Justice?If we pay 1,000 yen and are given something worth 500 yen, we will complain, angry. If we Continue reading
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