War-Image-War Chapter I,II,III   Objects which in themselves we view with pain, we delight to contemplate when reproduced with minute fidelity, such as the forms of the most ignoble animals and of dead bodies.  — Aristotle, Poetics   When we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near. — Sun Wu, The Art of War   Within the process of modernity, a complex and recursive relationship has formed between war and the

Future Ethics Future Ethics is not merely a speculation about the future, but an exercise in re-learning how to coexist. It refuses to place humanity at the center of the world, instead turning to the long-ignored voices of the earth—soil, plants, animals, minerals, wind, and water—and to the knowledge and memory that circulate among them. In the face of accelerated urbanization, capitalist expansion, and ecological collapse, we must rethink the temporal scale of ethics: not

A Translational Reality The word PRISMA across many languages while keeps the same meaning. It refracts and disperses, revealing the inner gradations of light while giving language and culture new forms in transmission. Like a translated word itself, it never settles into a single, unified meaning. It is always in motion, in convergence—generating new spectrums within the interstices of light and language. Cultural identity is never an already-given essence, but a form of “b

Reimagining the Dark Side of the Moon In 1973, the British rock band Pink Floyd released their magnum opus,  The Dark Side of the Moon , an album that uses the moon as a fulcrum to reflect on the shadowed and morally fraught recesses of the human psyche. The central metaphor is far from novel; rather, it draws upon a long-standing lineage of Western thought that entwines the moon with madness. Since the Middle Ages, the moon has been perceived as a celestial agent of derangem