In ‘Beyond Good and Evil’, Friedrich Nietzsche (58-74) lists a number of ‘Epigrams and entr’actes’. In this essay, I will focus on a couple of them, largely for the reason that unlike many scientists and scholars, I have had the privilege of teaching people. I appreciate how he gets to the point immediately. It’s just […]
I am surprised … by how I haven’t addressed chronotope in my essays, like at all. So, what is chronotope? Well, it’s one of concepts used by Mikhail Bakhtin in the context of novels. If you’ve ever studied literature, like seriously, not just a couple of beginner or intermediate level courses, you know what it […]
I have this article manuscript that I’ve been working on for a couple of years. It’s on the backburner, because it would need work to make things fit. It is basically too all over the place, not necessarily for my taste, but for other people’s tastes. In any case, the angle that I started with, […]
Ever since I read Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s ‘A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia’ and watched Bo Burnham’s ‘Inside’, I’ve thought of writing an article on that addressed faciality on social media, which is what Burnham does, in his own way, during the segment on ‘A White Woman’s Instagram’. Then came the summer of […]
In the previous essay I skipped addressing the issue of affect and embodiment through the works of Baruch Spinoza, not because I thought it didn’t make any sense, but because it totally made sense to do that. I just think that his thought requires its own essay, instead of being mentioned somewhere in the mix. […]
This essay is … it’s whimsical alright. I came up with while doing some actual research, rereading stuff, and I thought, why not. So, I ended up reading Paul Harrison’s article, ‘Making sense: embodiment and the sensibilities of the everyday’. What caught my attention was how he points out already in the title that sense […]
This time I’m focusing on something that I guess I should have covered already, like years ago. I remember reading years ago how J. B. Jackson wrote about all kinds of topics related to landscape. One of them was about cars and landscapes, which will be the topic of this essay. Right, so, interested in […]
I already wrote about this, but I went through only one of the articles related to the topic, which is that what do children have to do with landscapes? I pointed out that they don’t have much to do with it, really, considering that no one sees the world as a landscape when they are […]
How should we live? Or how might we live? Friedrich Nietzsche accepts the latter formulation and rejects the former formulation, as discussed by him in ‘The Four Great Errors’, which can be found in ‘The Twilight of Idols’. To make sense of this, he lists and goes through these four grave errors. The first error […]
What do children have to do with landscapes? Well, not much really, considering that no one sees the world as a landscape when they are born. It’s the adults who teach them to see the world that way. This is actually a topic that really hasn’t been investigated by landscape researchers. I could be wrong, […]