The Image of Babylon

I assume that we all know the famous images of The Tower of Babylon by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. The spiraling glory of this ancient cacophonous society mentioned in the old testament. The hotbed of ‘otherness’, Continue reading →

Sartre’s Obscene Moment revisited (part 2)

Last time we left it on a question: “is this woman with the tight skirt acting upon her own accord, and thus some sort of masochist. or is she pushed Continue reading →

Sartre’s Obscene Moment revisited (part 1)

Jean-Paul Sartre writes in the third chapter of Being and Nothingness about interpersonal relationships. For him this remains a complicated matter that starts with the moment of the gaze. When Continue reading →