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.
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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
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
[Hegel’s Glas]ses
It is a rare opportunity for a philosopher to have occasion to comment, not upon the written content of a Continue reading
Hume’s Aesthetics: On the Standard of Taste
There is undoubtedly a variety of opinion in matters of art appreciation – someone may, for example, detest Damien Hirst’s Continue reading
Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetics of Video Games
The great messianic art critic Walter Benjamin saw the role of film in his era of capitalist culture as creating Continue reading
Man, the Animal Without Essence, 2: Fire and the Cave
Why do humans produce art? What is it that has led us as a species to feel the need to Continue reading
