new year, new sources

Supposed  to be taking a break as my brain got too mashed to write coherent sentences before xmas – knew it was all going downhill, as if writing with fingers disconnected from thoughts, which had disconnected from feelings… not very much in the spirit of this journey!
But found Cchristopher Hauke’s book ‘On culture and the [...]

Nietzsche – good for a laff

I suspect Nietzsche is one of those writers you absorb by cultural osmosis – through rock lyrics and T shirts and graffiti (my favourite being the one about the abyss looking back) – on which basis I have always assumed him to be a miserable bastard, the Leonard Cohen of philosophers. But then I adore [...]