N I H I L S E N T I M E N T A L G I A,
a blog about photography by Sofia Silva
A New Type of Engineering As philosopher Luciano Floridi[1] pointed out, over the last decades it has become evident that Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) “have made the creation, management, and utilization of information, communication, and computational resources vital issues, not only in our understanding of the world and of our interactions with it, but…
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A person is more holy than a land, even a holy land, since faced with an affront made to a person, this holy land appears in its nakedness to be but stone and wood. Emmanuel Levinas. Josef Koudelka has become a mythical name for photography. A myth not only associated with the quality of his…
Read MoreIntroducing Nihilsentimentalgia’s newcomer André Carapinha with an essay about the veil of shadows that stands between our perception and “reality”. Photographs illustrating the essay all belong to Trish Morrissey‘s project Front (2005-07), where she sets out to find families that she joins temporarily, in an “as if/has-been” moment, at the same time manipulating reality and…
Read More© Anne Collier, Cut, 2009 I am not sure if I ever explained how the word Nihilsentimentalgia came about and what it means, so I’ll go on and state the obvious, that it was created for this purpose (although it is now part of a glaswegian dictionary) and is a mix of three words –…
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N I H I L S E N T I M E N T A L G I A, 