The Spectral Age

There was a time when all it took to escape the spectacle was to turn off the TV and go for a drive in the country. Today it is becoming increasingly difficult to imagine how one could free oneself from the entanglements of artifice. Social media, for instance, is an infrastructure designed for the express purpose of serving as the universal intercessor of all human relationships.

Art, Optics and Astrology

As a Professor of Art history at Northern Illinois University, Mary Quinland-McGrath highlights the integration of astrological science as it affected the development of aesthetic modes during the Italian Renaissance.