Tag: philosophy
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Melancholy Of The Ancient World
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Melancholy Of The Ancient World
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In this assay, the French philosopher leads us in a journey through images by great photographers such as Lewis Hines and Walker Evans, as well as through concepts elaborated by theorists such as Roland Barthes and Walter Benjamin, to reach a surprising conclusion about the nature of photography. In his own words: “Photography […] is…
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An ancient sculpture of a wounded slave, probably a gladiator
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Metamorphosis is the way the human beings exist, never definitive in their shapes and always in search for significance in a rush towards the end. It is not possible to think of personal identity other than as the arbitrary, though necessary, meanings that everyone associates to that uninterrupted flow of images, words, memories, affections that…
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