Source: Wikimedia commons, public domain. Possibly under the influence of Plato, who was himself influenced by Pythagoras, the Stoics held that the universe undergoes cycles, being periodically ...
Repetition in art can be so juicy … when it’s done right. Second-rate minimalism has so deeply traumatized all us with its dull monotony and draining sense of sameness. Indeed, the fear that your ...
“Time itself is a circle,” declares an interlocutor in Friedrich Nietzsche’s 1883 work of philosophy-fiction Thus Spoke Zarathustra, offering up an elliptical shorthand for the 19th-century German ...