Kafka’s Dimension of Critique. The authors in the text emphasize the critical dimensions of Kafka’s oeuvre, directing attention to the deconstruction of bourgeois subjectivity, the structure of institutions of the modern state, the questioning of modern distinctions between private and public space, work and free time, and other socio-political phenomena. In line with more complex […]
Viktor Lazić befriended pirates, crossed thousands of kilometers in a Lada Niva, and spent 15 years traveling. His literary works are not the fruit of imagination but the result of real adventures that erase all boundaries between the real and the literary world. Viktor Lazić is a travel writer, an untiring traveler, and an explorer […]
Networks threaten hierarchies – Sam Vaknin (Selected parts of the lecture: part 1; part 2) Because they are based on obedience, in hierarchies most people are not competent for their positions. Hierarchies disempower. In hierarchies, the main role of hierarchy is to take away your power. Networks empower. Networks give you power. Hierarchies take […]
Neutrinos and their weird subatomic ways could help us understand high-energy particles, exploding stars and the origins of matter itself. Why, after millions of years of steadily lighting the cold darkness, does a supergiant star suddenly explode in a blinding blaze of glory brighter than 100 billion stars? What exotic objects in deep space are […]
There is a Francis Bacon pope in Tate Liverpool that is barely a squeak from high camp. It shows the pontiff in sumptuous purple robes, raising his dainty little hands in a fit of girlish horror. It is a very strange addition to the long sequence of screaming popes; indeed this pontiff is not screaming […]
Everyone’s heard of Stonehenge. You could probably venture into the Amazonian jungle and seek out an untouched tribe of hunter-gatherers, spend months gaining their trust and learning their language, fighting off dysentery while you’re at it, and when their chief finally makes you an honorary member of their society, against the emphatic advice of his […]
Tales from the legendary hotel-slash-commune that housed Jackson Pollock, Dylan Thomas, Arthur Miller, Bob Dylan, Robert Mapplethorpe, Patti Smith, and Sid Vicious—told by residents like Rufus Wainwright, Betsey Johnson, R. Crumb, and Andy Warhol. Wll vanish before the city’s merchant greed, Wreckers will wreck it, and in its stead More lofty walls will swell This old […]
Avant-garde composer John Cage started out as a disciple of Arnold Schoenberg. He greatly looked up to the exiled Austrian as a model of how a true artist ought to live. Cage, in turn, inspired generations of artists and composers both through his work – which incorporated elements of chance into his music – and […]