• The genealogy of the simulation hypothesis

• When I was young I was invincible

• In defence of thinking in a speculative way

• On becoming mid career and post-disciplinary

• Every single body bleeding on its knees is an abomination

• The wonder of cats

• You know those times where everything was golden?

• What it is like to be mistreated as an object, without having the capacity to assume the position of subject

• I’ll fight you till I win

• And if I see you, how it changes me

• There’s poetry inside this city if you listen enough

• The most incredible sky I’ve ever seen in Manchester

• Post-horror and the epistemic chaos of platform capitalism

• You’re young until you’re not

• Nick Cave on extending a hand to assist the world

• Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on creativity and routine

• Here’s Lookin’ at You Kid

• I’m going to the river where the current rushes by

• Metaverse-related books and films

• We might be dead by tomorrow

• I am older now and we did it when we were young

• Irvine Welsh on angst, addiction and writing

• Blog Maggot

• ChatGPT’s limerick about Nietzsche’s depressiveness

• I am large, I contain multitudes

• The romance of the ascent of the humanity

• The only thing that’s left to do is live

• Year’s End

• The eye-on-the-object look

• The pleasure of returning to novels

• Next year’s going to be better than this

• I miss my old house

• The time a bus went boom outside a conference I was organising

• I’ve been taking some time to be distant

• But then why do you write? Nietzsche on the necessity of getting rid of your thoughts

• If you can dream—and not make dreams your master; If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim

• I’m going to make it through this year if it kills me

• I’m a lifeless face that you’ll soon forget

• The lights are out, the phones are dead

• On metronormativity

• This place was a shelter

• Rise like Lions after slumber

• Have a vegan Christmas

• You’re doing pretty well given the circumstances

• I think I thought I saw you try

• Music is the weapon

• Litany of Blooming, by Nick Cave and Nicholas Lens

• Capitalism is tearing us apart

• Rilke on living the questions rather than demanding the answers

• Nick Cave on creating on the edge of disaster

• The lavender has stained my skin and made me strange

• Nick Cave on the terrible devastating opportunities that bring transformation

• My favourite lyrics from Nick Cave’s Ghosteen filtered through an AI art generator

• Inventing our lives

• Nick Cave on loss and improvisation

• Haligh, Haligh, a Lie, Haligh

• Dragonfly Eyes (2017)

• To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield

• This Place is a Shelter

• We are ugly but we have the music

• Post-horror and the obscene character of (post-pandemic?) parties

• André Gorz and the concept of hygiene

• Day man, fighter of the night man ☀️

• We’ll go someplace, we’ll get a new start 

• George Simmel on Eye Contact

• Dream, dream, for this is also sooth

• On Rain

• A cybernetic black pill