Trauma & Philosophy

Philosopher Frank Seeburger's reflections on trauma as it relates to contemporary philosophical issues, especially those of truth, temporality, sovereignty, representation, politics, and the nature of philosophy itself.

Advertising Diversions and Diverting Advertisements

November 11, 2019 Frank Seeburger

Absorbed by Light, Design Bridge, 2018 Amsterdam Light Festival — *Absorbed by Light*, Design Bridge, 2018 Amsterdam Light Festival

All art done for the sake of advertising is improper art. It diverts from silence, and engenders possessive, not ideal, desire. Proper art has nothing to do with such diversion and diversification.

Forgetting Ourselves (2)

January 16, 2017 Frank Seeburger

What we call “art” can sometimes offer a false feeling of forgetting oneself in the positive sense, the sense of setting oneself free of “the bondage of self.” That is so, at least, for some of what we commonly call “art.”