torpedo the ark

The Philosopher and the Actress:  Wittgenstein & Raquel Welch     I.    According to the Google AI assistant, Ludwig Wittgenstein was an...

  Frankenstein's Monster x Ludwig Wittgenstein [1]   'Thinking has interests that do not coincide with those of the living ...' ...

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

Alejandro Mogollo Art on X @alemogolloart     I.    Someone called me a human sponge the other day, implying that I simply absorb other peo...

  Jonathan Cape (2017)     I.    As long-time readers of Torpedo the Ark will know, whilst, as a nihilist, my default position is always pai...

Joan Mitchell: Les Bluets (1973)  Oil on canvas (281 x 580 cm) [f]     NB: part one of this post (reflecting on selected propositions from ...

  Sex Pistols on Carnaby Street  Photo by Ray Stevenson (1976)   I.    Ian Trowell's dead knot essay [a] provides a fascinating insigh...

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

Tyson Fury Gypsy King  by Ryan James Wilson  ryanthedesigner.uk     As someone who has always admired those brave enough to enter the ring ...

Cover of the German edition of  Emanuele Coccia's Métamorphoses (2020)      I.    One of the things I like about Coccia's book is ...

I.    D. H. Lawrence opens his 1929 essay on pornography and obscenity by claiming that there is no consensus of opinion regarding a defin...