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29 May 2016
Asspresso: A Brief History of Coffee Enemas
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I like coffee. Most people like coffee. Coffee is one of the most popular drinks in the world. But very few people choose to squirt cof...
28 May 2016
And No Birds Sing
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This could be heaven ... Having moved back to my childhood home, it's forgivable to be feeling a little nostalgic for a time and ...
26 May 2016
O Wonderful Machine: Nihilism and the Question Concerning Technology (Part II)
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"What is dangerous", writes Heidegger, "is not technology. ... The essence of technology, as a destining of reveali...
O Wonderful Machine: Nihilism and the Question Concerning Technology (Part I)
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Charlie Chaplin: Modern Times (1936) According to Blanchot, Nietzsche is quick to grasp that all the modern world’s seriousness i...
24 May 2016
On Bolshevism and Immortality: the Case of Arseny Tarkovsky
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What I know about the twentieth century Russian poet and translator Arseny Tarkovsky can pretty much be written on the back of a postage st...
22 May 2016
On the Death of a Wellness Warrior (The Case of Jessica Ainscough)
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Jessica Ainscough: Wellness Warrior (1985-2015) Photo by Peter Wallis The case of Jessica Ainscough, the so-called Wellness Warr...
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20 May 2016
Strange Fruit: an All-American Festival of Cruelty
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Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, lynched in Marion, Indiana, on August 7, 1930 Photo by Lawrence H. Beitler According to Nietzsche, c...
16 May 2016
Executing Elephants Part III: The Case of Chunee (Death by Firing Squad)
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Both cases of elephant execution I have discussed so far took place in the United States in the early part of the twentieth century...
Executing Elephants Part II: The Case of Topsy (Death by Electrocution)
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Thirteen years prior to the macabre public execution of poor Mary discussed in part one of this post, was the equally gruesome murder...
Executing Elephants Part I: The Case of Mary (Death by Hanging)
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Having read the recent post written on Tyke, the so-called elephant outlaw [click here ] who killed her abusive trainer and rebelled a...
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