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Showing posts with label rilke. Show all posts
19 Mar 2026

Turning a Beady Eye on the Work of Liza Lou

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The artist Liza Lou  Photo by Mick Haggerty  ropac.net   'Somehow, I too must discover the smallest constituent element, the cell of my ...
2 Mar 2026

Reflections on Two Recent Poetry Collections by Simon Armitage 1: Dwell (2025)

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Simon Armitage:  Dwell   (Faber & Faber, 2025) Jetzt wär es Zeit, die tiere träten / aus bewohnten Dingen ...   I.    As a Heideggerian,...
5 Sept 2024

Heathen, Hedonistic, and Horny: Notes on Maggie Nelson's Bluets (2009) - Part 1: Propositions 1-120

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  Jonathan Cape (2017)     I.    As long-time readers of Torpedo the Ark will know, whilst, as a nihilist, my default position is always pai...
21 Jun 2023

Melody Blue

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Photo of Jane Birkin by Tony Frank used for the sleeve of  Serge Gainsbourg's Histoire de Melody Nelson (1971)     As long-time readers...
3 Jun 2022

Notes on Byung-Chul Han's 'Non-things' (Part 2)

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Byung-Chul Han: author of Non-things , trans. Daniel Steuer (Polity Press, 2022). Page references given in the post refer to this work.     ...
18 May 2021

Notes on the Case of Caterina Sforza

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Lorenzo di Credi: Portrait of Caterina Sforza    (c. 1481-83)   Se io potessi scrivere tutto, farei stupire il mondo!     I.    Nietzsche...
8 Jan 2020

Ailurophilia: On Baudelaire's Erotic Fascination with Cats

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Théophile Steinlen's 1896 design for the famous  Parisian nightspot Le Chat Noir Poets, like witches and philosophers, love cat...
16 Nov 2019

Notes on Plant-Thinking: A Philosophy of Vegetal Life by Michael Marder (Part 1: Encountering Plants and Ethical Offshoots)

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I. Sometimes, despite having the best of intentions, it can take five or six years to get around to reading a book and Michael Marde...
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