Nietzsche and Wagner on Tragedy: The Slave and the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Germany

During the nineteenth-century, the German speaking world was going through a period of rapid social and political upheaval. This tumultuous 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 →

Unbuilding Walls, 3: Passageway and Gatekeeper

“If I don’t meet you no more in this worldThen I’ll meet you in the next oneAnd don’t be lateDon’t Continue reading →

Homo Sacer: The State of Exception as a Dominant Social Paradigm

Just over a year following the release of the nine volumes of Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, the Continue reading →

Unbuilding Walls, 2: Foundation and Footing

“Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road Continue reading →

The Language of News: Can News Reporting Ever Be Neutral?

“The newspaper does not select events to be reported and then consciously wrap them in value-laden language which the reader Continue reading →

Unbuilding Walls, 1: Brick and Mortar

“He wanted a territory. He felt the need for caution. But he felt more strongly the need that had brought 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 →