What’s New
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT! SEE NICKOLAS PAPPAS’ appreciation of the late eminent classical scholar Jean-Pierre Vernant.
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Hyperion: On the Future of Aesthetics, the Nietzsche Circle’s e-journal devoted to applied criticism of the arts, is receiving wider and wider recognition, with many artists, writers, and gallery owners personally writing to us to express their admiration of the journal and its serious and thoughtful criticism.
Originally concerned with visual art alone, as many attentive readers will know, Hyperion has expanded to include criticism of literature, music, poetry, and theater as well as new translations of poetry. If interested in contributing to Hyperion, see our contributor’s guidelines and policy statement.
“Hyperion is the most thoughtful, nuanced, handsome online interdisciplinary journal of aesthetics out there.” —Lance Olsen
“Hyperion—an Internet magazine quickly becoming a required visit for anyone interested in the condition of contemporary American and world theatre.” —George Hunka, Superfluities
Nietzsche News Center (NNC) has highlighted the NC website as ‘site of the week’ since 2006. The Nietzsche Circle would like to thank NNC for its continued acknowledgement of our work.
News From Our Site Updates
NEW IN HYPERION
The February 2008 issue of HYPERION, Volume 3, No. 1, has been published in part and is now available online. Further articles will be added throughout March.
The issue features “Stoic Nihilism and the Beauty of Oblivion. A Meditation on Beckett’s Happy Days“; Nicholas Birns’s “Mediated Understandings,” a review of Richard Foreman’s Deep Trance Behavior in Potato Land. A Richard Foreman Theater Machine; Angela C. Holzer’s interview with Katja Brunkhorst on Nietzsche and Rilke and the discovery of Rilke’s personal copy of Thus Spoke Zarathustra; Philip Blackburn’s “Delusion 2.0; Harry Partch and the Philosopher’s Tone,” a review of the Japan Society’s production of Partch’s Delusion of the Fury; and Benjamin Moritz’ review of Aaron Ridley’s Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Nietzsche on Art.
Coming soon: Mark Daniel Cohen on the Morgan Library exhibition “Michelangelo, Vasari, and Their Contemporaries Drawings from the Uffizi,” Timothy J. Attanucci on Lance Olsen’s Anxious Pleasures, Rainer J. Hanshe’s interview on Pasolini with Roberto Chiesi, Joshua Gonsalves on Paolo Cherchi Usai’s intriguing and enigmatic The Death of Cinema, and more.
Previous issues are available online and to download and include work by Walter H. Sokel, Friedrich Ulfers, Agnes Denes, and others.
Highlights from our last issue include the first act of Gian DiDonna’s phantasmagoric play on Descartes, Renati the King; Mark Daniel Cohen’s Why Serra Matters, a review of MoMA’s exhibition on Richard Serra; Mark Daniel Cohen’s Water Ambient Through Water, a review of MoMA’s exhibition of George Seurat’s drawings; and Angela C. Holzer’s review of Katja Brunkhorst’s ‘Verwandt-Verwandelt’. Nietzsche’s Presence in Rilke.
Future issues will include work by Kevin J. Hart, Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei, Sophie Thomas, Inessa Medzhibovskaya, Donald Pease, Camelia Elias, and others.
If you wish to write for HYPERION, please download our guidelines and send a proposal to the editors.
ESSAYS
Featured in our essay section is Babette Babich’s eminently intriguing essay “Nietzsche and Eros. Between the devil and God’s deep blue sea. The problem of the artist as actor—Jew—woman.”
Coming soon, an essay by Katja Brunkhorst on Rilke and Nietzsche and following that, Arno Boehler’s “Culture of the Muses.”
Future essays will include work by Ali Mosbah (see our interview—available in English, German, or Arabic—with him on the momentous project of translating Nietzsche into Arabic) and others.
Previously appearing essays are available in the archive section and include Friedrich Ulfers’ and Mark Daniel Cohen’s “Nietzsche’s Amor Fati: The Embracing of an Undecided Fate” (the complete version of an essay that was published previously in altered form in Poesis: A Journal of the Arts & Communication), James Luchte’s “The Wreckage of Stars: Nietzsche and the Ecstasy of Poetry,” Walter H. Sokel’s “On the Dionysian: Monism and its Consequences,” Philip Pothen’s “Pygmalion, Agamben, and the Myth of Nietzschean Aestheticism,” and more.
