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8 Jul 2021

That City of Dreadful Night: D. H. Lawrence's Letters from Paris

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Paris est toujours une bonne idée     I.    I'm currently reading a big fat book of essays, short stories, and poems by over seventy aut...
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6 Jul 2021

Lord, Open Thou My Lips ...

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Andreea Anghel :  Le Noir's Jesus Wound as a Vagina (2017) saatchiart.com   I. Lord Jesus Crucified, I adore the Sacred Wound in thy mo...
4 Jul 2021

The Scar is the Eye of the Violet: On Stigmatophilia and Sexual Healing

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Illustration attributed to Jean Le Noir from   The Prayer Book of Bonne de Luxembourg (c. 1345) showing Christ's side wound in detail  ...
3 Jul 2021

Rabbit: On the Obscene Beyond and Other Abhorrent Mysteries

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Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit  Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit ...     One of the most astonishing and disturbing cha...
1 Jul 2021

The Obscene Beyond: It is So Lovely Within the Crack

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I love you delicious rottenness ...   I.    As might be imagined, the concept of the obscene within philosophy is rather more complex than ...
30 Jun 2021

With Wings Spread Silent Over Roofs: In Defence of the Urban Gull

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  Image: Gary Hershorn / Getty Images Apparently, whilst the number of coastal birds continues to decline, the number of seagulls making a h...
27 Jun 2021

Soured Through the Ages Like Piss Lemonade: Notes on Punk Is Dead (2017)

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(Zero Books, 2017)     I.   Pressed between the 300 or so pages of this book are a series of memories from various contributors who still li...
24 Jun 2021

Final Reflections on Hölderlin's Poltergeists (A Drama for Voices by Síomón Solomon)

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(Peter Lang, 2020)     I.    Astute readers may have noticed that whilst I published a quintet of posts last month on the supplementary writ...
22 Jun 2021

From the Archives ... A Brief Style Guide for the Nietzschean Woman

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"We are the smart set, a world apart set  We are the neatest, ergo elitist." [1]     As Derrida pointed out, the question of style...
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21 Jun 2021

Put on a Little Makeup and Make Sure They Get Your Good Side: A Brief Note on Positive Punk

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The Class of '83 ... Photo by Mike Laye   "Consigned to a foul demise by the forces of cash and chaos, punk broods alone in its dar...