Foucault and “Las Meninas”: On Postmodernism and Painting
Not everyone might be familiar with the original Spanish title for Diego Velázquez’s famous painting, The Ladies-in-Waiting (1656). It is arguably the most famous painting by this…
The End of Kantian Universalism: Fairground Economy, Police States, and the Permanent Apocalyptic Sacrificial Carnival (Part IV)
In the previous articles I repeatedly asserted that we ‘basically’ live inside a police state, as the police is the most basic institution of the modern state,…
The Postmodern Subject
In the previous chapter, McGuire illuminates how Voegelin’s analysis of Aristotle shows that ethics and politics are to be based on one’s noetic participation in an nonobjective,…