torpedo the ark

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

  'Democracy is as close to a precise negation of civilization  as anything could be, short of instantaneous social collapse into  murde...

(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 ...