Greek and Roman statues were often painted, but assumptions about race and aesthetics have suppressed this truth. Now scholars are making a color correction. Mark Abbe was ambushed by color in 2000, while working on an archeological dig in the ancient Greek city of Aphrodisias, in present-day Turkey. At the time, he was a graduate […]
“I am not a religious man,’ the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein once said to a friend, ‘but I cannot help seeing every problem from a religious point of view.’ These problems that he claims to see from a religious point of view tend to be technical matters of logic and language. Wittgenstein trained as an engineer […]
L’être primordial (mère-hibou), qui ne rencontrait aucun obstacle (il tournait simplement autour de son axe), était contraint d’en concevoir un et de mettre à l’ épreuve sa capacité d’exister, en la projetant sur le néant. C’est ainsi que fut formé le Labyrinthe d’un Regard rendu indépendant de la lumière: celui qui est une manifestation de […]
(Extrait de “L’Horizon de Neith”) Le nom rayé de l’identité archiancienne de la Mère des temps immémoriaux est la topographie du mal qui ne s’est pas encore déclaré, ou bien la mappemonde des points pathologiques au sein de l’âme universelle – elle est donc le rouleau en langue de feu de Sa propre volonté qui […]
L’impasse de l’histoire humaine aboutit à l’aliénation de l’empreinte archioriginaire, imprimée dans tous les êtres et concentrée dans l’œil de l’oiselle/la prunelle du Soleil – qui, par son éruption, produit sa propre éclipse: signe prémonitoire (donné par la Lune obscure) qui dénonce l’oubli humain de l’Étoile polaire, dont la mort s’est inscrite précisément sur le […]
In Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo, the jungle, oppressive and thick, provides the perfect backdrop to the ambitions and lunacy of men. Obsession weighs heavy on Fitzcarraldo (Klaus Kinski), a man consumed with a plan to build an opera house in the heart of the Amazon. In order to fund the project, he intends to make his […]
The Joy Division story has been told many times, yet it never stops seeming too bizarre to be true. Jon Savage, best known for his classic punk history, England’s Dreaming, was one of the band’s first chroniclers in the 1970s, but he tells the tale in a new way in his excellent new book This Searing Light, The Sun and Everything Else. It’s the ultimate […]
The eighth wonder of the ancient world The Pantheon in Rome is a true architectural wonder. Described as the “sphinx of the Campus Martius”—referring to enigmas presented by its appearance and history, and to the location in Rome where it was built—to visit it today is to be almost transported back to the Roman Empire […]