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Above: Harry Worth demonstrating the comic potential of a mirror image in 1962  Below: an illustration by N. Burgess showing the chemical st...

Messrs. Lovecraft and Burns   I.   My love is like a red, red rose ...    For many people - indeed, we can almost certainly say most peop...

  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....

  The biosphere cannot exist without exchange  and interaction with the chthonic thanatosphere   I.    My friend Heide recently sent me a li...

Damien Hirst: Black Sun (2004)  Flies and resin on canvas (144" diameter) Photograph: Prudence Cuming Associates  © Damien Hirst and S...

The nihilist and the transcendental idealist     Recently, I started exploring the speculative writings of British philosopher and sci-fi au...

Emil Cioran - crazy hair, crazy guy! I. From out of the blue comes a book in the post: a copy of E. M. Cioran's ...

Image: Scotty Hendricks (2018)   bigthink.com I. The word diversity is frequently used today, particularly by those who regard i...

Pure Evil:  Anita Pallenberg's Nightmare -  Paint It Black (2016)  Stencil spray paint on canvas (100 cm x 100 cm) Whilst i...

Charlie Chaplin: Modern Times  (1936) According to Blanchot, Nietzsche is quick to grasp that all the modern world’s seriousness i...

Dandelion: photo by Greg Hume (2006) As much as Lawrence may wish to sit like a dandelion on his own stem and concern himself exclus...

Statue of Diogenes the Cynic (Sinop, Turkey) I don't want to live in a barrel, carry a lamp, masturbate in the market place, o...

Federico Campagna identifies himself as a Sicilian philosopher based in London. Unfortunately, I'm not sure this is entirely ...