two roland barthes working on a photo lab

On photography’s double nature

  • Fleeting Thoughts
  • Philosophy, Photography

I was in my early twenties when I first learned about Roland Barthes’ critical work on photography. Back then I...

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walter benjamin interviewing paul valery with a microphone

Because times are always changing

  • Fleeting Thoughts
  • Philosophy, Zeitgeist

I was recently reviewing Benjamin’s canonical essay “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”. This is a...

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mikhail bakhtin sculpting the logosphere with a chisel

Sculpting in the logosphere

  • Fleeting Thoughts
  • AI, Philosophy

1. Unconscious optics In “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” Walter Benjamin develops the notion of...

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