Ed Mirza

New Age Hero: The Eternal Return of the Hero in Art and Literature

New Age Hero: The Eternal Return of the Hero in Art and Literature is a long-form interdisciplinary essay tracing the persistence and transformation of the heroic figure from The Epic of Gilgamesh and Classical antiquity through Christianity, the Renaissance, Baroque and Neoclass...

New Age Hero: The Eternal Return of the Hero in Art and Literature

New Age Hero: The Eternal Return of the Hero in Art and Literature is a long-form interdisciplinary essay tracing the persistence and transformation of the heroic figure from The Epic of Gilgamesh and Classical antiquity through Christianity, the Renaissance, Baroque and Neoclass...

New Age Hero: The Eternal Return of the Hero in Art and Literature

New Age Hero: The Eternal Return of the Hero in Art and Literature is a long-form interdisciplinary essay tracing the persistence and transformation of the heroic figure from The Epic of Gilgamesh and Classical antiquity through Christianity, the Renaissance, Baroque and Neoclass...

New Age Hero: The Eternal Return of the Hero in Art and Literature

New Age Hero: The Eternal Return of the Hero in Art and Literature is a long-form interdisciplinary essay tracing the persistence and transformation of the heroic figure from The Epic of Gilgamesh and Classical antiquity through Christianity, the Renaissance, Baroque and Neoclass...

Animistic Solutions to Semiotic Disputes

Description Animistic Solutions to Semiotic Disputes is a speculative philosophical essay examining whether the analytical distinctions made between different kinds of signs may obscure a more fundamental continuity between things and their representations. Beginning with the pos...

Animistic Solutions to Semiotic Disputes

Description Animistic Solutions to Semiotic Disputes is a speculative philosophical essay examining whether the analytical distinctions made between different kinds of signs may obscure a more fundamental continuity between things and their representations. Beginning with the pos...

Painting as Time Warper

Certain paintings possess an immediacy through which a represented room seems to become perceptually present. Beginning with Velázquez’s Las Meninas and the interiors of Vermeer, this speculative essay examines the sensation that painting may act less as a representation than as...