torpedo the ark

Torpedo the Ark: images from posts published on  13 December (2014-2023)     Apart from 2012, 2013, 2019, 2020, and 2022, I have published a...

Cat (June 2024)     I.   Mon chat est mort aujourd'hui .    Unlike Nellie McKay, however, I didn't pour myself some gin; nor ponder ...

  Juan de Juanes:   Christ the Saviour with the Eucharist (1545-1550)   And after he had given thanks, Jesus broke the bread, and said:  ...

(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.    I was interested to hear the Chairman of the D. H. Lawrence Society, Mr Alan Wilson, claim in a recent sermon streamed live from St....

Jane Birkin (Dec 1946 - July 2023)     I'm very sad to note that - 32 years after the death of Serge Gainsbourg - Jane Birkin has died. ...

Me and My Mother (c. 1969)     I.    I was in two minds about whether to speak or stay silent at my mother's funeral service, which was ...

Last photo of my mother on her 96th birthday  (10 July 2022)     My mother died today. Unlike Meursault, however, I'm pretty certain of ...

Meine Mutter celebrating her 96th birthday      The old ones say to themselves: We are not going to make way, we are not going to die, we a...

Cover of the German edition of  Emanuele Coccia's Métamorphoses (2020)      I.    One of the things I like about Coccia's book is ...

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