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(Polity Press, 2024)     I.    The subtitle of Byung-Chul Han's new little book is In Praise of Inactivity [a] . But it's important...

  And above us all fluorescent tubes shall hang ...    I.    'Manhole 69' is not, as far as I know, the name of gay sex club (though...

Hans Olde: Nietzsche on his Sick-Bed (c. 1899)  Goethe-Nationalmuseum (Weimer)     In Ecce Homo , Nietzsche defines philosophy as a seeking...

Man Ray: Sleeping Woman  (1929)  Museum of Modern Art, New York What can one do, asks Nietzsche, when one succumbs to ennui and...

D. H. Lawrence says some very amusing things about sleep and dreams in his brilliantly crackpot work of 1922, Fantasia of the Uncon...