Essay on Exoticism
Excerpt from V. Segalen, Essay on Exoticism: an Aesthetics of Diversity, tr. eng. Y. R. Schlick, Duke University Press, 2002 [original copyright held by éditions Fata Morgana, whom we thank for their kind permission: V. Segalen, Essai sur l’exotisme: Une esthétique du divers, 1978] It was in the span of his short life, at the […]
Three Colours, or: “What Will Happen?”
The story goes like this. There is a great artist, the greatest, perhaps, of all times. He is mysterious and enigmatic; he never made his word public, no one ever had access to his thoughts. It is painful to me to tell the tale, painful to keep it silent too, says Aeschylus’ Prometheus; as the years pass by, Zima – […]
Viroid Life
Excerpt from the article “Viroid Life. On machines, technics, and evoIution”, in Viroid Life: Perspectives on Nietzsche and the Transhuman Condition, K. Ansell-Pearson, Routledge, London, 1997, pp. 145-150 Philosophies of Difference, particularly through the efforts of Deleuze and Guattari, have offered new perspectives in respect to the question of technology, freeing it from the biologising […]
The Killing of a Sacred Whale
An encounter takes place off the northern coast of Europe. It has as its subject the Grindadráp, the ancient and sacred Fær Øer Islands’ whaling, and it tells of the tension between modernity and tradition, between myth and efficiency, progress and identity. Chaosmotics continues to expand its analysis on mythopoiesis through this excerpt by Nicklas […]
Essay on Exoticism
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