torpedo the ark

Jazz Griffin: the Invisible Punk   (SA/2025) [1]      I.    A recently published post on the way in which my memory of the past is inextrica...

D. H. Lawrence and Frieda Weekley  as imagined in 1912 [a]    When in March 1912, Lawrence called upon Ernest Weekley, a professor of modern...

Stephen Alexander:  Bye Bye Blackbird (2025) [1]   'The blackbird cannot stop his song ...  It takes place in him, even though all his...

I.    I've nothing against the humble sardine; that small, oily fish in the herring family, which some people refer to as pilchards and ...

Stephen Alexander  A Non-Selfie Selfie (2025)    And how do you see yourself when looking in the bathroom mirror  through someone else...

  Stephen Alexander / Simon Solomon Dear Simon, Thank you for your remarks on a recent post entitled ' Yabba Dabba Doo! ' (28 Feb 20...

Stephen Alexander: Hypomnema (2025)     I.    Is blogging really so different from the ancient Greek practice of providing a written commen...

Portrait of the Artist as a  Darkly Enlightened Philosopher (SA 2025) [1]   "Darling, am I looking old? / Tell me dear I must be told ....

Cold Turkey with Jean Baudrillard   (SA/2024)     Boxing Day or not, if given the choice between a plate of cold turkey and a book of cool m...

1: Portrait of a Pumpkin 2: Sorry Cinderella - It Looks Like You're Gonna Be Walking Home   Stephen Alexander (2024)   Last week, on a f...

 Walter Benjamin and Stephen Alexander illumined by Paul Klee's blessed Angelus Novus (1920)     Readers familiar with this blog will kn...

Stephen Alexander: Chaos Reigns II (2024)     Long-time readers of Torpedo the Ark might recall a post published on a sparkling ice-cold mo...

Poster design featuring:    1: Mask of Agamemnon   (c. 1550-1500 BC) [1]   2 The Man in the Iron Mask (1939) [2]  3: L'homme au masque d...