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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...
31 May 2022

Reflections on Another Jubilee (There's Still No Future in England's Dreaming)

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Jamie Reid: sleeve artwork for 'God Save the Queen'  by the Sex Pistols (Virgin Records, 1977)  National Portrait Gallery (NPG D4805...
29 May 2022

From the Soil Beneath Our Feet to the Iron in Our Soul (Another Open Letter to Heide Hatry)

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  The biosphere cannot exist without exchange  and interaction with the chthonic thanatosphere   I.    My friend Heide recently sent me a li...
28 May 2022

On Chthonic Vitalism 2: In the Etruscan Tombs with Giorgio Agamben

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  Etruscan tombs (Tarquinia)   The aim of those who practice philosophy in the Etruscan manner is to learn how to die.     I.    For D. H. L...
27 May 2022

On Chthonic Vitalism 1: In the Etruscan Tombs With D. H. Lawrence

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  Man lives naked and glowing on the surface of the Earth. Then comes death and he departs into the Underworld.     I.    D. H. Lawrence wa...
24 May 2022

On Finding Ourselves in a State of Exception (Part 2)

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Cover of the Spanish edition  (Adriana Hidalgo Editora, 2020) [a] We will have to ask ourselves the only serious question that truly matters...

On Finding Ourselves in a State of Exception (Part 1)

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Giorgio Agamben   We will have to ask ourselves the only serious question that truly matters: where are we now?  And it is a question we sho...
20 May 2022

Wood You Believe It? Another Post on Dendrophilia (With Reference to the Case of Humphrey Mackevoy)

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Dendrophilia ALCU (A Little Crazy Universe)  on tumblr.com     'I am just back from the woods. My thighs are cold from the touch of bar...
17 May 2022

Lady Chatterley's Lover Visits Harold Hill

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My local boozer, The Pompadours -  and some Lawrence scholars find the Sun Inn, Eastwood, a bit rough ...     Harold Hill is a long way remo...