Index of Writings

1. Neon Genesis Evangelion: The Self and Other in Anime
   When the world of "I" and the world of "you" collide...


2. Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night, 1889-2006
   The movement of color and brush strokes in three-dimensional space... Van Gogh's landscape of colors and swirling valleys of yellow...


3. Nostalgic
   After modern art and everything's blown to smithereens: an art student reflects on Bill Viola's "Reflecting Pool," and the extinction of VHS tapes.


4. A Battle of Wits for a "Smile in the Mind"
   From concept to reality.The essence of mathematical logic and language: ideas as art.


5. Post-Marxist Chess Set
   Updating the mythology of Chess for the Twenty-First Century in the spirit of Roland Barthes.


6. When Philosophy Shifted to Modernism
   How ideas are trapped in history... The philosopher's credentials: Descartes on trial.


7. "Your Rights End at the Tip of My Nose"
   The body as a physical boundary between two people: a look into Art Spiegelman's use of masks in Maus I and II.