August 2021

Important as the soup is in To the Lighthouse it is never identified, never seen as “beautiful red soup” or “eternal” tomato soup...

It is a commonplace that the history of civilisation is largely the history of weapons...

It was the arrival of the personal computer that amalgamated all previous trends and technologies, converting the home into a neoliberal workspace...

There is a great tree in Sussex, whose cloud of thin foliage floats high in the summer air...

We must wrestle control from Big Tech. We must restore dignity to the dearly departed...

How do we enter into the ritual time outside of time in which narrative unfolds?

Just a few steps away, my mind was buzzing like a bee: What the hell are you doing? You’re only fifty! People your age are starting new chapters in their lives, and you’re planning your death?

It is vain to try to write unless you feel strong in the knees...

Spectacle Island would not look the way it does today if it were not for Boston...

At the time of the dooms in the third quarter of the Reaper’s Moon, in the island of Britain...

The same radicalizing dynamic, which was predicated on a complete break with the past, also made it very difficult, and perhaps even impossible, to leave certain pasts behind...

There’s a sense of deep internal contradiction running through DiAngelo’s writing that emerges from such discrepancies and which is at odds with the wealth she has accrued as an authority on anti-racism. It points towards the limitations of a worldview that, however well intentioned, pushes us deeper into the...

When we found the lumpy soup of proto-frogs, it felt reassuring to me: a symbol of renewal...

A practice ‘designed to demonstrate the transience of all material things’ has been co-opted in ‘service of the profit motive’...

It wakes one up to go away from home for a time, no matter where...