The Sublime Forms of Contemporary Art Review of the book by Nadežda Elezović, Meta-Spiritual Art in Croatia [Metaspiritualna umjetnost u Hrvatskoj], Redak, Split, 2024

Žarko Paić is a retired Professor at the University of Zagreb, where he taught courses in Aesthetics and Visual Studies. His research interests encompass aesthetics, philosophy of art, philosophy of science, political philosophy, and visual/media studies. He is a member of the Croatian Society of Writers, the Croatian PEN Center, the Croatian Philosophical Society, the Forum for Humanities, the International Center of Studies on Contemporary Nihilism, and the Sören Kierkegaard Institute. He is a foreign member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the field of humanities, and he serves as the editor of the Sociology and Transhumanism Series, published by Trivent Publishing in Budapest. His publications include Theorizing Images (edited with Krešimir Purgar, 2016), Technosphere Vols. 1–5 (2018–2019), White Holes and the Visualization of the Body (2019), The Return of Totalitarianism—Ideology, Terror, and Total Control (2022), and The Superfluity of the Human—Reflections on the Posthuman Condition (2023).