torpedo the ark

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

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

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

  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...

Georg Trakl: Self-Portrait  (1913) I. You should probably read more Trakl ,   says Simon. And, yes, I probably should ... For ev...

Jastrow's ambiguous figure of the duck-rabbit made famous by  Wittgenstein in his Philosophical Investigations (1953), II, §...

(Penguin, 2018) According to Graham Harman, Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO) is first and foremost a form of realism. It is thus a cou...

Albrecht Dürer: The Rhinoceros (1515) Even many non-philosophers know two stories concerning Wittgenstein's time at Cambridge:...