Zachary Fisher
I am an n-th year PhD student at the University of Virginia working on early modern representations of the Phantasy or imagination as they intersect with philosophical skepticism. As one who has been a graduate student who has been in graduate school far too long with a dissertation that has been gestating beyond what is reasonable, I want to use this blog to offer some of the ideas ultimately cropped from my monstrous dissertation.
Categories used most frequently by the blogger:
early modern #WoodcutWednesday Silly Things Tangents Shaping Sense Early Modern Senses paramaterial Phantasy Scholarship woodcuts imagination Shakespeare vision Philosophical Skepticism history of science senses skepticism renaissance Satire Descartes
“Objet petit a”: More Senseshaper Woodcuts from the Void. Enjoy!
18 November 2017
After a long period in which I let this blog grow fallow, you get two posts in one day! As I sat down to finish up my earlier post on Ficino and the material, mutual gaze, I realized...
18 November 2017
I have been arguing for a medieval and early modern paramaterial phantasy which paradoxically positioned the phantasy and its spirits somewhere between the material and the immaterial,...
Donald Trump Woodcut: Megalomanicus Logorrheus
4 February 2017
It has been a while since I’ve posted anything, but I was asked on Twitter to share my Donald Trump woodcut: Megalomanicus Logorrheus. If not used for profit, feel free to use...
“Their phantasies differ”: The Phantasy in Raleigh’s translation of Sextus Empiricus
3 May 2014
The “Sceptick,” first published in 1651 and attributed to Sir Walter Raleigh, offers one of the first known English translations, albeit unacknowledged, of portions of Sextus Empiricus’...