
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
The great messianic art critic Walter Benjamin saw the role of film in his era of capitalist culture as creating Continue reading
In the first part of Man, The Animal Without Essence I focused on the myth of Prometheus and Epimetheus, in Continue reading
Recently I received a book in the post. The words were written by an author I’d never heard of and it Continue reading
On a cloudy Friday afternoon, sometime at the end of March, we were sat huddled on the floor of a Continue reading
Artifice and art itself – these are the two meanings of the Greek word technē. Technē is, according to French Continue reading
Why do humans produce art? What is it that has led us as a species to feel the need to Continue reading
The Voynich Manuscript dates to the early 15th Century and it is believed to have come from northern Italy. It Continue reading
What would life look like without advertising? This is a question that seems almost unthinkable to us in a modern Continue reading