Divine kings or postmodern puppets?

Divine kings or postmodern puppets? Reading Nirvana and NFTs with Jean Baudrillard and Mark Fisher   By Nick Hagan It’s October 1991. A photographer goes to see an up-and-coming band called Nirvana play in Philadelphia, just days after the release of their new record, Nevermind. You know — the one with this image on the cover: The…

Grunge and Philosophy

Grunge and Philosophy What Nirvana Can Teach Us about the Philosophy of History By Micah Tillman Prelude: Epochal Boundary-Markings “The new millennium doesn’t start till 2001,” my classmate told me in the dining hall. “There was no year 0, so every century and millennium begins on a ‘1’.” I found that argument annoying in 1999,…