Media: what a messy, capacious, contentious term, in all the ways Raymond Williams described for Keywords. Slipping across material substrate, technological means, and environment, it incarnates the in-betweens that make...
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Is this all there is
The glowing aura of an impossible elsewhere
by Susan Lepselter
This past December, amid the increasingly unnerving cacophony of presidential tweets taunting North Korea with nuclear fire and fury—a couple of weeks after Donald Trump called Kim Jong-un “Little Rocket...
Couture and the death of the real: A response to Heavenly Bodies
Time, gender-bending, and the medieval church
A Universe of Terms
media
by John Durham Peters
...offer such addictive feedback loops, but most mix the mundane and the transcendent. The ethicist and Talmudist Emmanuel Levinas wrote of the “il y a,” the there is, as a...
A Universe of Terms
modernity
by SherAli Tareen
Modernity is inescapable and yet escapes any clear definition. Few concepts and categories have been subjected to as intensive, long-running, multidisciplinary, and contentious exploration, debate, disagreement, and theoretical meditation as...
A Universe of Terms
modernity
by Olivia Whitener
“Modernity” features in A Universe of Terms, a project of The Immanent Frame. For information on why and how this project was curated, read the framing essay “Creating the Universe.”...
Is this all there is
Capturing spirituality
by Rodrigo Toniol
This is a photograph album that I made some years ago. In the images, however, there are no people, landscapes, or summer holiday scenes. Even so, I built up a...
