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A punk bromance: Sid 💘 Johnny   'Punk is a challenge to reconsider everything you do, think or feel;  including the ways that you love....

Festina lente - a design by the famous Renaissance period  printer and publisher Aldus Manutius, featuring a dolphin  curled round an anchor...

Thou hast no speculation in those eyes ... [1]     It's disconcerting enough when Phoevos the cat sits and stares at me, particulary if ...

jakelikesonions.com / @jakelikesonions         In philosophy, as in comedy, there have been many great comebacks, ranging from the retort c...

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

  Unfortunately, there's a personality type in the world known as a grievance collector ... [1]   The grievance collector remembers eve...

Image credit: UCLA / Horvath Lab   Somewhat paradoxically, whilst having a minimal sense of self on the one hand, I've always possessed ...

Festhalten (SA/2022)     I.    In a sense, much like the figure pictured above, we are all hanging on for dear life to the great flowerpot ...

Mike Brennan: Denial   (Acrylic on canvas, 24" x 30") mikebrennan.me It will surprise no one to discover that Shakes...

Susan Catherine Waters Young Boy with a Pocket-Knife I. According to Professor Woody Caan, experience of bullying or victimisa...

Dr. Ian Bogost: bogost.com   I have to admit, four chapters and 120 pages in, I'm a bit bored with this book by Bogost. The as...

I: The Nietzschean View of Marriage Nietzsche famously declares that all great philosophers are instinctive bachelors who disl...

Jasmin Savoy-Brown cast as Emilia Bassano,  believed by some to be Shakespeare's Dark Lady  Photo: John Willy (2016) I have...

Antisemitic poster from 1942 used in German occupied Poland to warn against the  supposed connection between Jews, lice and typhus; fo...