Browsing: Philosophy

A Synthetic Epistemology essay on Haraway’s situated knowledges, partial perspective, and the critique of neutral data, machine gaze, and AI objectivity.

A conceptual image accompanying an article on Kant’s doctrine of schematism. The composition represents pure concepts on one side and sensible appearances on the other, connected through imagination and the temporal forms of number, persistence, succession, simultaneity, possibility, actuality, and necessity.

Postmodern art is not only a formal and aesthetic transformation, but also the product of a philosophical and theoretical shift. In order to understand the deeper structure and intellectual background of this artistic condition, it is necessary to turn to the ideas of Jean-François Lyotard, Fredric Jameson, and Jean Baudrillard, three of the most important theorists of postmodernism. These thinkers address the central problems of postmodern aesthetics: the way art produces meaning, the crisis of representation, its relation to the past, and the debates around reality and simulation. Jean-François Lyotard: The Collapse of Grand Narratives Jean-François Lyotard offered one of…

A philosophical reading of postmodern art through Jameson’s critique of depthlessness, surface, fragmented subjectivity, simulated history, and the loss of mythic meaning.

A philosophical reading of Jameson’s critique of postmodern art as the collapse of representation, depth, history, and critical meaning under the cultural logic of late capitalism.

A conceptual image accompanying an article on Hegel’s distinction between actuality and mere existence. The composition relates Hegel to the unity of concept and reality, essence and appearance, inner and outer, necessity and contingency. The owl of Minerva may appear as a symbol of philosophy comprehending a historical form once it has matured.

A conceptual image accompanying an article on Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s The Visible and the Invisible. The composition represents the intertwining of body and world through light, shadow, surfaces, and reciprocal gazes. It evokes flesh, chiasm, reversibility, horizon, embodied perception, and the invisible depth carried within every visible form.

A conceptual image accompanying an article on Martin Heidegger’s phenomenology. The image represents the transition from Husserlian consciousness and intentionality to Dasein, being-in-the-world, ecstatic temporality, hermeneutic interpretation, language as the house of Being, and art as an event of unconcealment.

A conceptual image accompanying an article on Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and the Monadology. The composition represents monads as distinct, inward centres connected through a harmonious cosmic pattern. It evokes perception, appetition, apperception, relational space and time, the principle of sufficient reason, and the best of all possible worlds.

A conceptual image accompanying an article on the ontological system of Spinoza’s Ethics. The composition associates Spinoza with geometrical forms representing definitions, axioms, propositions, and demonstrations. It evokes the unity of substance, Deus sive Natura, thought and extension, finite modes, causal necessity, conatus, the transformation of affects, and the intellectual love of God.