Art for the Already Dead

Susan Sontag's Burner Phone

No. 01
Winter 2026

Arcane Waves — public access transmissions

Experimental film, children’s TV relics, and occult ephemera. Please return your name tag to HR on the way out.
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The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary (1887)
Feature

When Flowers Were People (And A Little Bossy)

A guided wander through personified botany and the moral lives of plants. Sensible shoes recommended, mild delirium optional.

Filed under: botany, allegory, hallucination
Kircher: Ars Magna frontispiece
Essay

Kircher’s Light Machines

Moon dials, mirages, and the original vibe technician.

Aldrovandi: Monstrorum Historia (1642), page 562
Essay

Monstrorum: A Manual

Renaissance cryptids with impeccable posture.

Arcane Waves Open the TV
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Courses Art Appreciation · Drawing · Watercolor

From the Stacks

Haeckel: Discomedusae (Plate 8)
Sea Forms
Haeckel’s jellyfish symmetries.
Camille Corot, Fontainebleau: Oak Trees at Bas-Bréau (public domain, The Met)
Corot, Fontainebleau
Oak trees at Bas-Bréau, sober and luminous.
Destruction of Leviathan (public domain)
Leviathan
Biblical sea-beast meets Victorian drama.