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…

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…

River boulder, Laramade

Leaves are falling, autumn has arrived.  Three or four years ago I found a really good boulder  in the Vicdessos valley, near the popular and developed area of Laramade. I was very surprised no one had found it before, being about 45 degree overhanging some evidence of cleaning or chalk would have been visible, but…