Martin Heidegger – Did He Forget Ethics? Vladimir Nemet Introduction: Western civilization today resembles a traveler who has lost his compass but continues to quicken his pace, convinced that speed will save him from the abyss. As discontent grows in...
Curo, Ergo Sum — I Care, Therefore I Am Vladimir Nemet Introduction: The Problem of Human Self-Determination Human beings have always sought to understand themselves and discover the foundations of their own humanity. The question of how to experience oneself...
Steve Reich and Philip Glass: The Sound of Transcendence Vladimir Nemet On the Secular Sacred in Music Every now and then, not very often, something happens in a concert hall that is difficult to explain. Listening to music, one suddenly...
Ferdinand Kulmer and the Psychology of Metamodernism Vladimir Nemet From the Autonomous I to the Great Thou Ferdinand Kulmer occupies an unusual place in Croatian painting of the second half of the twentieth century. Croatian art history rightly describes him...
The Death of the Sacred Vladimir Nemet The Sacred That Cannot Be Named Something strange has happened to modern man: he can speak about almost everything – except the sacred. He can speak about identity, trauma, sexuality, power, desire, ideology,...
How Postmodernism Killed Art: When Nothing Is Greater Than Me Vladimir Nemet The crisis of contemporary art is often described as a crisis of form, institutions, the market, or criteria of aesthetic value. However, a more radical question can be...
Mourning from a Metamodern Perspective Vladimir Nemet Mourning: Renunciation of the Ideal or Its Preservation? One of the most enduring assumptions of psychoanalysis is that mourning is a process in which the subject gradually becomes disillusioned with the idealized object....