Henri Bergson was an intellectual celebrity who received a Nobel Prize but then sank into relative obscurity. Three new books signal the renewal of enthusiasm for a thinker who was once the most famous philosopher in the world.   Sean Sheehan   With “Creative evolution” (1907), Bergson’s fame ‘skyrocketed’. This […]

Israeli air attacks across the Gaza Strip, in the week beginning 17 March 2025, killed more than 300 Palestinians, including women and children.   Sean Sheehan   As one of the newsreaders on Novara Media put it, the months-long ceasefire means Hamas ceases while the Israelis fire and maintain a […]

The two girls on the front cover of “The adventures of Guille and Belinda and the enigmatic meaning of their dreams” are cousins and Alessandra Sanguinetti first photographed them in 1999 when they were nine and ten years of age.   Sean Sheehan   Sanguinetti, an American born in New […]

To appreciate the importance of this publication – the first book on Central American art – take a look at its introduction, available for reading on the publisher’s website. The introduction has the names of the 40 artists featured in the book and some images of their work.   Sean […]

“Jouissance”, the French word for enjoyment, is a term with philosophical implications due to the importance given it in the psychoanalytic ideas of Jacques Lacan. When it is applied to the reality of capitalism as a system of exploitation and subjection, political jouissance becomes a way of understanding why ideology […]