Bottled Humanism

Orwell had a big problem with Kipling's use of dialect in stories and poems; no soldier would recognise Kipling's dialogue: it o...

What is it like to be unable to know something-for example knowledge of the non human? Capek considered the case of talking newts; here hu...

I was nearly Victor Serge; Like him I  was also a 'dissident's dissident'. Everyone said I had the look of Basque Beatnik-frizzy...

We know Tetsumi Kudo and Ionesco fell out during the making of La Vase ; looking at how Kudo went on to use Ionesco in his work. it must hav...

Snowden has told us something new about NSA/GCHQ; they have an instrument, styled Dreamy Smurf, for taking  over your phone and instruct...

Hamilton's Interior containing Thatcher's TV image gazing upon a seedy NHS space moves out of the interior and swiftly mutates i...

Since Edward Snowden we should be talking about surveillance: not so; either it is accepted as inevitable or desirable or OK up to a poi...