The final section of Antjie Krog’s volume of poetry, Pillage (2022), consists of a sequence of poems titled “oh fragile earth … a mass for the new dispensation.” Krog’s mass adopts and transforms the content and structure of the Christian (Roman Catholic) mass, concerning both liturgy and music, and becomes a space for ethical and ecological mourning, celebration, and metamodern spiritual...
This paper critically assesses and argues for the value of firstand second-person phenomenological approaches to researching aesthetic experiences.Against the background of a review of academic debates on the topic of slow cinema, this paper demonstrates the need for more rigorous and grounded research on film experiences.It therefore advocates the implementation of the empirically-informed,...