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 →

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 →