torpedo the ark

(Polity Press, 2024)     I.    The subtitle of Byung-Chul Han's new little book is In Praise of Inactivity [a] . But it's important...

    I.    This post - post number 1977 - marks the 10th anniversary of Torpedo the Ark [1] and, fear not, there's no Elvis, Beatles or ...

B is for ...  Baudelaire, Bataille, Barthes, and Baudrillard     There are many French things that I love beginning with the letter B - from...

The MIT Press (2017)     I.    Neue deutsche Denke are a bit like buses; you wait ages for one to come along, then two or three arrive on t...

I love you delicious rottenness ...   I.    As might be imagined, the concept of the obscene within philosophy is rather more complex than ...

  I woke up this morning to discover that the room was spinning around and whilst Bataille might imagine vertigo as a pathway to the Void an...

Front cover of the English hardback edition William Heinemann (2019) In the end, even your favourite writers let you down. And ...

Horst P. Horst: Barefoot Beauty (1941) Feet: some people find them very beautiful and sexually attractive; others think them repul...

SA: The Gift (2019) The Cat - not my cat, as, contrary to what she seems to think (and despite the amount of time she spends sitti...

"[There are] three different attitudes towards excremental excess:  an ambiguous contemplative fascination; a wish to get rid of...

Cover art for the single 'Melt!' by Siouxsie and the Banshees  (Polydor, 1982)  "Are you familiar with the fright...

Heide Hatry III. The Truth of Masks I don't want to appear dim, but I'm not sure I understand this opening sentence from yo...