torpedo the ark

Images used for the posts published on this date in  2013, 2018, and 2022     Sometimes - especially those times when, like today, I can'...

Horses, horses, horses, horses! [1] I.   Yesterday morning, I was in a central London café sipping a mint tea when, suddenly, from the othe...

Portrait of Jonathan Swift by Charles Jervas (c. 1718)  Detail from National Conveniances by James Gillray (1796)   I.    D. H. Lawrence fa...

Helen Chadwick in a field of Piss Flowers Photo by Kippa Matthews (1992)     I.    For most British people, a piss artist is one who likes ...

Artificial Intelligence x Torpedo the Ark       An artist friend of mine decided to ask some AI softwear [1] to produce a text in the style...

Sex Pistols Photo by Richard Young (1976)   "We have passed beyond the absurd: our position is absolutely ridiculous." [1]     I...

(Polity Press, 2023)     I.    Although Daniel Steuer's English translation of Byung-Chul Han's book Absence was only published las...

A tree frog shown before and after the  Chernobyl nuclear accident in 1986     I.    I have always liked D. H. Lawrence's description o...

    I.    February 13th is a day of quiet reflection for me now: the day I was born (1963) and the day my mother died (2023).   In the Bhaga...

(Polity Press, 2024)     I.    Byung-Chul Han has had a new book published in English translation: The Crisis of Narration [a] .    It'...