An analysis of Matacho’s Visual Language and Contemporary Myth David Náñez, known professionally as Matacho, is a Colombian graphic designer, illustrator, and urban artist from Popayán, a city famed for its white houses and Holy Week processions. (Náñez, 2015) Rooted in Colombian culture, his work blends influences from skateboarding, street art, and hip hop with the visual language of pre-Columbian civilizations. He reimagines ancient stories through modern design, applying

The title is Feedback, and this may have brought to mind the noise that occurs when you hold a microphone too close to the speaker; what is happening here is that the input is too close to the output, and this generates a continuous loop. We can also discuss the microphone as a subject, affecting its environment, and the environment, in turn, affecting the subject. This is how media ecologists who examine media as environments discuss media and the effect revolutions in tech

Disney’s versus De Beaumont’s Beauty and the Beast   Walt Disney created a career and empire based on retelling well-known fairy tales....

In Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape, Krapp is an old man who finds it extremely difficult to simply move and live, even in his own office. As...

The Myth Medusa was one of three sisters known as the Gorgons, who lived on the outskirts of the inhabited world. They were born from...

A Matter of Metaphor and How Do the Political Effects of Pictures Come About? A Matter of Metaphor  begins by admitting that Picasso did not define many of his metaphors, but references one instance in which he states that the Bull in Guernica  was representative of a dark force while the horse was the Spanish people. Peculiarly, the article decides to challenge the artist’s own interpretation, including other sources and their own interpretation. The article even suggests,

The formal qualities of a work of art inform the viewer not only of what is being looked at, but also of how the artwork presents itself....

Kwame Anthony Appiah, in “The Case for Contamination”  (often referred to under themes of cosmopolitanism), and Olu Oguibe, in “In the...

In approaching such a broad subject, Ernst Gombrich opens his argument with an equally broad statement: “Style is any distinctive, and therefore recognizable, way in which an act is performed or an artifact made or ought to be performed or made.” Grombrich then chisels away at this definition to provide a context and a redefinition of different ways the term “style” is used. Grombrich “conveniently grouped” these uses into two categories: descriptive and normative. “Style” i

Sirens of Titan, Kurt Vonnegut's 1959 science fiction novel about the implications of war and the pulls of luck versus free will, is echoed, one must presume, lovingly by Alan Moore within Watchmen. Watchmen, 1986, is a comic, movie, and series that also comments on war at the height of a Cold one. Here we will discuss the subjects within Sirens of Titan, a science fiction novel by Kurt Vonnegut that inspired Alan Moore's universe-building, particularly within The Watchmen. A

A refutation of Ayn Rand's critique of 'Whim' “Today, as in the past, most philosophers agree that the ultimate standard of ethics is whim (they call it “arbitrary postulate” or “subjective choice” or “emotional commitment”) – and the battle is only over the question of whose whim: one’s own or society’s or the dictator’s or God’s. Whatever else they disagree about, today’s moralists agree that ethics is a subjective issue and that the three things barred from this field are:

Alice in Wonderland is highly imaginative writing with unforeseen twists and turns in every chapter. Various themes make up the storyline, and repeated are multiple references to eating that seem sinister, carnivorous, and cannibalistic. Some of these references are as simple as a phrase, while others are embedded within poetry. How "Doth the little Crocodile" (pg 11) is a twisted version of a poem that was a lesson that school children might learn. The original "How doth