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25 Jun 2022
Stone Me, What a Life! (A Brief Post in Memory of Tony Hancock)
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The Lad Himself Anthony [Aloysius St John] Hancock (1924 - 1968) On this day in 1968, the English comic actor Tony Hancock committed su...
23 Jun 2022
Summer Solstice with D. H. Lawrence (1910 - 1928)
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Max Pechstein: Summer in Nidden (1919-20) D. H. Lawrence liked to think about human life in relation to the wheeling of the year , i.e....
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21 Jun 2022
Are We Really Returning to the 1970s? (I Wish ...)
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Front page of The Sun (20 June 2022) I. Some commentators seem to imagine that Britain is returning to the 1970s, pointing to rising...
20 Jun 2022
A Philosopher's Guide to Home Decorating 1: Always Use a Paintbrush Not a Roller
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Deutsche Philosophen malen lieber mit Pinseln (SA/2022) We all know the advantages of working with a roller rather than a brush; thank...
17 Jun 2022
On the Necessity of Killing Carpet Moths
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Trichophaga tapetzella [1] I. I have always liked moths. Indeed, I once wrote a post in praise of them: click here . And even when ...
15 Jun 2022
Cat Killer / Cat Saviour
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The Gayer-Anderson Cat britishmuseum.org I. The Case of Steven Bouquet ITV recently broadcast a particularly distressing documentary about...
8 Jun 2022
Anti-Human Reflections on the Red-Billed Leiothrix
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Leiothrix lutea I. In a country in which insect numbers have fallen a staggering 65% in the last twenty years and other factors, such...
4 Jun 2022
She Never Lied to Us: Reflections on the Case of Irena Dubrovna
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Simone Simon as Irena Dubrovna in Cat People (dir. Jacques Tourneur, 1942) She was marked with the curse of those who slink and mate an...
3 Jun 2022
Notes on Byung-Chul Han's 'Non-things' (Part 2)
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Byung-Chul Han: author of Non-things , trans. Daniel Steuer (Polity Press, 2022). Page references given in the post refer to this work. ...
1 Jun 2022
Notes on Byung-Chul Han's 'Non-things' (Part 1)
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Polity Press (2022) [a] I. Once upon a time, to value material objects - or things - was seen as some kind of moral failure; a sig...
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