Seneca, On the Shortness of Life
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves—and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and ...
Continue Reading →Serres, Angels, A Modern Myth
In this new work Michel Serres, France’s foremost philosopher of science, explores how traditional images of angels in art and legend foretell the preoccupations of ...
Continue Reading →Mattie, Architectural Competitions: 1792-Today
The rules governing competitions also vary enormously. It was the Institute of British Architects which first laid down guidelines in the 1830’s, formalising them in ...
Continue Reading →Cicero, On Old Age, On Friendship, On Divination
Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106–43 BCE), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring ...
Continue Reading →Langer, Feeling and Form
In Philosophy in a New Key, Susanne Langer developed a theory of symbolism, there applied to music, which she felt could be developed to embrace ...
Continue Reading →Belting, Florence and Baghdad
The use of perspective in Renaissance painting caused a revolution in the history of seeing, allowing artists to depict the world from a spectator’s point ...
Continue Reading →Basar, Coupland, Obrist, The Extreme Self
The Extreme Self is a new kind of graphic novel that shows how you’ve been morphing into something else. It’s about the re-making of your ...
Continue Reading →Suter, Parallel Encyclopedia
Batia Suter?s work intuitively situates found images in new contexts to provoke surprising reactions and significative possibilities. This volume follows on from the first?Parallel Encyclopedia?, ...
Continue Reading →Hamacher, Minima Philologica
Minima Philologica brings together two essays by Werner Hamacher that are meant to revitalize philology as a practice beyond its restriction to the restoration of ...
Continue Reading →McEwen, Anaximander and the Articulation of Order
Anaximander was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher who lived in Miletus, a city of Ionia (in modern-day Turkey). He belonged to the Milesian school and learned ...
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