Taylor Swift Does Not Exist: In Memoriam Achim Szepanski

The original version of this essay was published as the afterword to the new edition of Achim Szepanski’s (1957–2024) In Continue reading →

Semiotics of the End: The Backrooms

On October 12, 1492, Italian explorer Christopher Columbus landed on the American continent. On July 20, 1969, American astronaut Neil Continue reading →

Remembering Baudrillard’s Contaminated Discourse

The parasite serves as a useful simulacrum for post-modernism. Post-modernity engages us with a kind of viral discourse, which seeks Continue reading →

The Filmic Non-Place: Notes on Devirtualization in Cinema

In the 2007 book Bioaesthetics philosopher and teacher of Aesthetics Pietro Montani writes about the increasing disempowerment of the external Continue reading →

Semiotics of the End: Welcome to the Virtual Plaza

Like factories, shopping centres today exist only to efface their omnipresence. After “society as a whole takes the appearance of Continue reading →