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Hits: Philosophy in the Jukebox is an extraordinary foray into what apple has convinced us is “the soundtrack of our lives.” How does music come to...

In this intimate meditation on listening, Peter Szendy examines what the role of the listener is, and has been, through the centuries. The role of ...

Hits: Philosophy in the Jukebox is an extraordinary foray into what apple has convinced us is “the soundtrack of our lives.” How does music come to...

Reading Melville is not only reading. Reading Melville means being already engaged in the abyssal process of reading reading. Reading what reading ...

Already in 1929, Walter Benjamin described “a one hundred per cent image-space.” Such an image space saturates our world now more than ever, consti...

Apocalypse-cinema is not only the end of time that has so often been staged as spectacle in films like 2012, The Day After Tomorrow, and The Termin...

“Yes, Kant did indeed speak of extraterrestrials.” This phrase could provide the opening for this brief treatise of philosofiction (as one speaks o...

Already in 1929, Walter Benjamin described “a one hundred per cent image-space.” Such an image space saturates our world now more than ever, consti...

In this intimate meditation on listening, Peter Szendy examines what the role of the listener is, and has been, through the centuries. The role of ...

“Yes, Kant did indeed speak of extraterrestrials.” This phrase could provide the opening for this brief treatise of philosofiction (as one speaks o...

The prostheses Peter Szendy explores—those peculiar artifacts known as musical instruments—are not only technical devices but also bodies that live...

What if our existence is a product of its interruptions? What if the words that structure our lives are themselves governed by the periods and comm...

When Susan Sontag first proposed the idea of an "ecology of images," she meant it as an exhortation to be vigilant against the vast surplus of pict...