torpedo the ark

(W. W. Norton, 2016) [a]     I.    As I've been looking at and thinking about art quite a bit recently, it seemed a good idea to read Da...

Love Him or Loathe Him ... Here's Jean Baudrillard -  the Marmite Philosopher  (SA/2024)     I.    In response to my Boxing Day post - c...

Photo of Soo Catwoman by Ray Stevenson (1976) The slogan is a paraphrase of a sentence written by Walter Benjamin [1]     "Why do we fe...

Author Maggie Nelson: skilled in the art of making  the personal and the private public and political     I.    Someone recently asked me t...

Gilles Deleuze attempting to keep things simple     I.    In a recent post I offered some advice about blogging; stressing the need to be co...

  Groucho was a punk rocker   I.   I have given several attempts to explain what the polysemic phrase torpedo the ark - borrowed from Norweg...

Christine Pascal, Gilles Deleuze & Olga Georges-Picot     I.   Last night, on TV, they were showing one of my favourite films: the Briti...

Adapted from the cover of Henry Miller's   Notes on 'Aaron's Rod', ed. Seamus Cooney,  (Black Sparrow Press, 1980)     I.   ...

  Detail from a poster designed by Maciej Hibner  for the film The Idiot (dir. Ivan Pyryev, 1958)   The idiot has no soul: he is like a flow...