by João Silva | Sep 30, 2022 | Articles, Theory, Visual Arts
1. Relevance and Saturated Phenomena The world is complex. From a simple raindrop to the complicated order of a city, whether we scale up or down, we find an infinite amount of complexity. Every object we perceive hides in itself infinite details and, if one closes in...
by Jason Williams | Sep 23, 2022 | Articles, Bible, Theory
In 1885, Friedrich Nietzsche’s “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” was published. This book was vastly different from all of Nietzsche’s prior works in that this was his lone novel. “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” had characters, settings, a definite, albeit rather hard to follow,...
by John Roxandich | Aug 12, 2022 | Articles, Theory
The question of politics has been the point of contention in much of public discourse. Whether on social media or at the dining table for a holiday dinner, we find ourselves in varying degrees of disagreement on any number of issues. However, as the common thread of...
by Max Teernstra | Jun 15, 2022 | Articles, Folk Stories & Traditions, Theory
1. Story: Heaven and Earth It may be useful to begin this article by explaining in what manner story is explored. However, it’s perhaps more intriguing for the reader to contemplate the following wise phrase, which implicitly contains this entire article in a simple...
by Daniel Townhead and Kenneth Florence | Jun 12, 2022 | Articles, Current Events, Folk Stories & Traditions, Theory
AS SHE WALKED FROM the Louvre, she seemed to sense some articulated structure shifting to accommodate her course through the city. The waiter would be merely a part of the thing, one limb, a delicate probe or palp. The whole would be larger, much larger… Of...
by Jean-Philippe Marceau | Jun 8, 2022 | Articles, Current Events, Theory
The following is a translated and transcribed version of a french podcast recorded in June 2022 by Jonathan Pageau and Jean-Philippe Marceau. JP: Welcome everyone to this new episode of the Symbolic Life with Jonathan Pageau and JP Marceau. Today what I’d like to do...
