Fabian Heffermehl, PhD, is a media-theoretician and artist at Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies. Heffermehl has published several articles in Russian, German and Norwegian about Pavel Florensky and Fyodor Dostoyevsky. In Heffermehl’s monograph ‘The Image Seen from the Inside’ (forthcoming) he analyzes the interaction between mathematical concepts in the 20th century and theories of the Orthodox icon.
The following article takes the negative attitude of the Orthodox Church to the internet as a phenomenon, which derives from a complex development of theories of the icon-medium. I argue … Read More