The BANALITY of EVIL
Eichmann is everywhere; not Everyman but Nowhere Man, someone we have all come across in our daily lives. For Arendt it was his bland normality that made him so terrifying.
Eichmann is everywhere; not Everyman but Nowhere Man, someone we have all come across in our daily lives. For Arendt it was his bland normality that made him so terrifying.
A hamadryad (Greek: Ἁμαδρυάδες, Hamadryádes) is a Greek mythological being that lives in trees. They are a particular type of dryad, which are a particular type of nymph. Hamadryads are born bonded to a certain tree. Some believe that hamadryads are the actual tree, while normal dryads are simply the entities, or spirits, of the trees. If the […]
Photograph by Sam Sherratt ’Everything is metamorphosed into its opposite to perpetuate itself in its expurgated form.’ — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (1981) ∆ The word ‘kitsch’ entered the English language from German (kitsch, meaning gaudy trash, from the dialect word kitschen, to smear or coat). It was much used by art critics in the […]