Dwelling, Discovery, and Return: A Phenomenological Reflection

Introduction It begins or occurs often imperceptibly, with or in a space initially barely noticed: a den hidden beneath brambles, a boulder tucked into the curve of a slope, hidden from sight, a blank canvas resting against the russet coloured walls of my cabin in the evening light. One does not begin with construction or…

UKB 2.0 — When a Forum Forgets

UKB 2.0 — When a Forum Forgets Or the autocratic nature of a once independent UKB “Power is everywhere; not because it embraces everything, but because it comes from everywhere.” — Michel Foucault UKB now feels caught in that final stage, optimised, sanitised, and increasingly detached from the people who built it. Tech critic Cory…

two minds

‘Given that we can only live a small part of what is in us – what happens to the rest?‘ Night Train to Lisbon, by Pascal Mercier. SOLD Sept 2024

Extinction event

Am I verging on an extinction event now, even as i write? Am I stumbling around in an arid desert, malnourished, hollowing out, meaning evaporating and leaking from my now defunct and semi useless consciousness? Or is there something I can offer, something vital, or am I just laying down a fossil, something to become…