• A condition of complete simplicity, costing not less than everything

• 2024: a (work) year in review

• My 25 favourite films of 2024

• My 20 favourite books of 2024

• ⚡️ The God War: my first attempt at Marvel fan fiction

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #152

• Current mood in AI generated images #151

• Companions in the infinite rather than comfort animals

• The social imaginary of middle class 90s kids

• You’ll need somebody when you come to die

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #150

• So you were born and that was a good day, some day you’ll die and that is a shame

• Music can grip us with the energy of a religious conversion. Once it is heard, one never experiences the world in quite the same way

• “It was the first time in my life where I felt an escape from my head”

• We sell our dreams and our potential to escape through that buzz

• New couples employ basically the same tactics that cults do

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #149

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #148

• Current mood in AI generated images #147

• New opportunity for independent critical realist researchers

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #146

• You see a mousetrap, I see free cheese and a fucking challenge

• We who are your closet friends feel the time has come to tell you that every Thursday we have been meeting as a group

• The unexpected words and power that a speaker can find in the right audience

• Current mood in AI generated images #145

• Current mood in AI generated images #144

• Blogging as letting people into your messy studio

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #143

• Some thoughts about Richard Seymour’s Disaster Nationalism

• bell hooks on the difference between cathexis and love

• I think I like it here, so I’m gonna let them forget us

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #142

• I talked to somebody again who knows how to help me get better

• Current mood in AI generated images #141

• Was Tony Blair the first effective accelerationist?

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #140

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #139

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #138

• Was Donald Trump the first person to (successfully) adapt the poetics of wrestling to American politics?

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #137

• Each time we don’t say what we wanna say, we’re dying

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #136

• Nick Cave: “put your fucking phones away”

• Current mood in AI generated images #135

• Current mood in AI generated images #134

• It seems, as one becomes older, that the past has another pattern

• There is only a single, urgent task: to reach out with joy

• On respect for what exists

• Current mood in AI generated images #133

• I just discovered depressive breakcore and I’m in love

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #132

• Elon Musk (2010) vs Elon Musk (2024): the radicalisation of America’s digital elites

• One has only learnt to get the better of words for the things one no longer has to say

• The wayward temporality of psychic life

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #131

• Online Critical Realism Discussion Group

• Why am I so fascinated by the aesthetics of abandoned media?

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #130

• Footfalls echo in the memory down the passage which we did not take

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #129

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #128

• Current mood in AI generated images #127

• The things you can’t remember tell the things you can’t forget that history puts a saint in every dream

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #126

• I live my life in widening circles

• That secret that you know but you don’t know how to tell

• Fling the emptiness in your arms out into the spaces we breathe

• Put out my eyes, and I can see you still

• Making the familiar strange

• Words strain, crack and sometimes break under the burden

• There was a Zelda: A Link to the Past 2 😮

• Current mood in AI generated images #125

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #124

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #123

• What you seek, it is near, now comes to meet you half-way

• The enigmatic desolation of Caspar David Friedrich

• We must be still and still moving, into another intensity

• 🍂 Current mood in AI generated images #122

• What will the next stage of capitalism look like? Two possibilities from Cedric Durand responding to Brett Christophers

• The fruit of reconciliation and relief after immense suffering

• Current mood in AI generated images #121

• How to free associate

• Current mood in AI generated images #120

• I just discovered Therapist Reaction YouTube and I can’t stop watching it

• Current mood in AI generated images #119

• He came home from the war with a party in his head

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #118

• If Donald Trump represents an insurgency against elites then why do so many billionaires support him?

• Bev Skeggs on being a head of department: “a layer of protection against idiocy”

• A poor lost and confused fox running down one of Manchester’s main shopping street in the middle of the day 😢

• Hannah Arendt Consortium Launch event Sept 26th and 27th, 2024

• Ridiculous the waste sad time stretching before and after

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #117

• And I have felt a presence that disturbs me with the joy of elevated thoughts

• The limp charade of Cambridge in the 2020s

• Who’s to hold up the sky if not you and I?

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #116

• “Dear Self, I know you’re crying out for help”

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

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #115