torpedo the ark

  Mark Fisher:  k-punk   (Repeater Books, 2018) [a]   I started the blog because it seemed like a space in which to maintain  a kind of disc...

Male runners in the London Marathon Photo by Alessia Pierdomenico    There are tens of thousands of them and each one runs alone,  without e...

Psychodramatists:  Stephen Alexander and Simon Solomon     I.    I have been following the recent (often acrimonious) exchange between Steph...

Torpedo the Ouroboros (SA/2026)       I.    It didn't take long into the New Year before a familiar critique resurfaced (from a familia...

I Recognise the Irony, But I Don't Really Get It ... (SA/2025)      I.   I recently went to a talk on the  slop-ification of literature ...

Emmanuelle Fantin and Bran Nicol:  Jean Baudrillard   (Reaktion Books, 2025)   'What I am, I don't know? I am the simulacrum of myse...

  Smash the Fascism of the Potato!   (SA/2025)     I.    It took quite an effort on my part as a dendrophile to stop thinking (figuratively ...

    This is published post number 2,500 [1] .    And, according to those who like to engage in numerology (i.e., the pseudoscientific pract...

  If you constantly think you are a genius or an insect,  you will eventually become a genius or an insect ...  [1]         I.   In a sense,...

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

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