torpedo the ark

Images used for posts published on this date  in 2014, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2020, and 2023     Sometimes - especially those times when, like to...

Joy Division (L-R: Peter Hook / Ian Curtis / Bernard Sumner / Stephen Morris)      "Were they fallen angels or ordinary blokes? " ...

I think, therefore I'm ill   I.    After a recent 6/20 presentation [1] , someone in the audience surprised me by saying that she didn...

  Anne Hathaway as Andrea Sachs and Meryl Streep as Miranda Priestly The Devil Wears Prada (dir. David Frankel, 2006)     When writing abo...

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

New sign erected at a local equestrian centre; the exclamation mark  detracting from the politness of the request.  (Image: SA/2022)     I. ...

Shepard Fairey in front of his portrait of Barack Obama before its installation  at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C. in 2009...

Pop art prints by Amazon I. It's always worth remembering to whom Nietzsche dedicated the first edition of Human, All Too Hu...

An Indonesian sea turtle and a 19th century German philosopher As everyone knows, Schopenhauer thought the world a manifestat...

Front cover of the Polity Press edition (2020) designed by Adam Renvoize I. The fact that Michel Houellebecq loves Schopenhauer...

Schadenfreude is a form of malicious mirth that takes cruel delight in another's misfortune, failure, or humiliation. Nietzsch...

Nietzsche Icon from Ryan Haecker's  blog  Transhuman Traditionalism   I. 'How is negation of the will possible? Ho...