Dr. Morgan Meis
Adjunct Faculty
PhD, Philosophy, New School for Social Research, 2003
mmeis@collegeforcreativestudies.edu
Dr. Morgan Meis’ interests include the intersection of visual art, philosophy, aesthetics, garbage, small objects, large objects, but less so medium-sized objects, literature, candy, broken toys, ancient languages, and socks.
Professional Experience
I founded (along with Shuffy, but I was first) an arts collective in New York City called Flux Factory. I wrote a boring but strangely brilliant dissertation on Walter Benjamin’s The Arcades Project. I lived in Sri Lanka for a bit. I wrote about art and aesthetics. I help daily with the Huckleberry Explorers Club General Store, Museum, and Gardens here in Detroit (2660 Buchanan Street: Come On By!). I write sometimes for obscure journals and magazines and also, weirdly, for The New Yorker. I’ve published some books.
Significant Publications, Presentations and Exhibitions
The Fate of The Animals: On Horses, The Apocalypse, and Painting as Prophecy (Slant Books: 2022)
Wonder, Horror, Mystery: Letters on Cinema and Religion in Malick, Von Trier, and Kieślowski (Punctum Books: 2021)
Timothy Morton’s Hyper-Pandemic, in The New Yorker. 2021.
The Drunken Silenus: On Gods, Goats, and the Cracks in Reality (Slant Books: 2020)
