I don’t need a theme… I am a theme! – that, in short, is the shift that is making its way across social media (and not exclusively, either) where quantity manifests as a practically riveting movement…
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“You know yours. As do I. It is not knowledge that we lack. What we lack is the courage to realize what it is we know and draw the appropriate conclusion.”
Read moreThe following text is a translated and abridged version of the essay Empatie a výraz ve fenomenologii a dramatice (Empathy and Expression in Czech Phenomenology and Dramatics) by philosopher Alice Koubová, which we have decided to publish in this thematic issue for her striking phenomenological analysis of the relationship between expressivity and the feeling of the other…
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An incomplete calendarium of Czech photography 2002–2022
Even though history is not obedient and does not unfold from a given date to another, instead passing by in an unbroken continuum, it is our habit to single out various epochs and phases…
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The ubiquity and primary biological need for food predetermine that food has undoubtedly been photographed by every photographer at some point. Furthermore, “gourmet pictures” enjoy great popularity nowadays…
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I remember how back as an undergraduate, I was captivated by Soumrak fotožurnalismu (The Twilight of Photojournalism, 2009). Filip Láb, a dedicated photojournalist, lecturer and promoter of the public understanding of the theory of photography, wrote it with his mother, Alena Lábová, also a photography theorist…
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My Love,
I have been thinking about this for a long time. It would perhaps be better to say this to you in person, but you’re hard to talk to in person. We’ve known each other for years, practically my entire life, and for a long time, I couldn’t imagine living with anyone else; any other way…
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This essay examines the meaning and place of the concept of utopia in the twenty-first century, a time of many dramatic social changes…
This visual essay is based on observation of the four wolves in the Prague Zoo and reflects on how the wolves are materially and discursively fixated by such an assemblage…