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I.    I've nothing against the humble sardine; that small, oily fish in the herring family, which some people refer to as pilchards and ...

Stephen Alexander  A Non-Selfie Selfie (2025)    And how do you see yourself when looking in the bathroom mirror  through someone else...

  Stephen Alexander / Simon Solomon Dear Simon, Thank you for your remarks on a recent post entitled ' Yabba Dabba Doo! ' (28 Feb 20...

Stephen Alexander: Hypomnema (2025)     I.    Is blogging really so different from the ancient Greek practice of providing a written commen...

Portrait of the Artist as a  Darkly Enlightened Philosopher (SA 2025) [1]   "Darling, am I looking old? / Tell me dear I must be told ....

Cold Turkey with Jean Baudrillard   (SA/2024)     Boxing Day or not, if given the choice between a plate of cold turkey and a book of cool m...

1: Portrait of a Pumpkin 2: Sorry Cinderella - It Looks Like You're Gonna Be Walking Home   Stephen Alexander (2024)   Last week, on a f...

 Walter Benjamin and Stephen Alexander illumined by Paul Klee's blessed Angelus Novus (1920)     Readers familiar with this blog will kn...

Stephen Alexander: Chaos Reigns II (2024)     Long-time readers of Torpedo the Ark might recall a post published on a sparkling ice-cold mo...

Poster design featuring:    1: Mask of Agamemnon   (c. 1550-1500 BC) [1]   2 The Man in the Iron Mask (1939) [2]  3: L'homme au masque d...

  Fig. 1: Stephen Alexander: Lascivious   Oil on canvas (c. 1985)      Stephen Alexander's aureate canvas entitled Lascivious depictin...

Don't Deadname (after William Blake )  Stephen Alexander (2024) [1]     I.    Perhaps because I have myself used and been known by sever...

Stephen Alexander:   I Want to Hold Your Hand (2024)   Stephen Alexander's disturbing self-portrait accompanied by Myra Hindley is a st...

  Stephen Alexander: Beneath the Wheel (2024)    I.   If any image brutally encapsulates the idea of tragic irony , then it is surely the o...