The Sleep of Reason: How Societal Shifts Create Space for ‘Monsters’

Kathmandu— In 1799, Francisco de Goya’s engraving ‘The sleep of reason produces monsters’ captured a potent idea about the fragility of order. More than a century later, Antonio Gramsci, writing from prison, described a similar moment of societal upheaval as an ‘interregnum’ filled with ‘morbid phenomena.’ While translated loosely, these parallel observations by Goya and […]