Beyond the Image sport Johan Huizinga’s phrase “magic circle”

Johan Huizinga’s phrase “magic circle” circumscribes cultural fields whose logic manifests itself in rules and rituals that mark a distance from normative societal orders

including media works and sound installations

Francis Nenik’s essay offers the first detailed description moreof the history of the house in which Thomas Mann lived with his family from 1942 to 1952 during his period of exile in the U

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Beyond the Image sport Johan Huizinga’s phrase “magic circle”Today, we do not believe in images anymore. This incredulity is, in part, the product of technology. From brainrot to deepfakes, from NFTs to sloppy content, the function of the image is not representation but only the reproduction of capital. In the twentieth century, the machine automated the hands of workers; in the twenty first century, it automates the eyes of consumers. The conveyor belt is upgraded by scrolling. In the age of electronic