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…

short days (solstice)

A plateau high up on the south face of a mountain, looking to Spain across a flat valley, smoke from the towns and villages, make a disc of yellowish haze. The silence is strong, wood against wood in the trees and beak against wood from the birds. Occasional and sporadic gusts of wind rattle the…

north

Photograph taken on a lonely hitchhike somewhere North of the Arctic Circle, Norway late 1980’s.

project

I looked in the woods and I found a very promising unclimbed boulder. I came back with brushes and a ladder and cleaned the moss and dirt from the boulder. Revealed beneath was a prow of granite, hidden in the trees, a thing of interest a thing of desire. On my second visit I began…

burnt toast

I went for a long drive to go bouldering; in the end I didn’t climb much at all. After crossing the Pyrenees I drove across vast tracts of empty arid Spanish landscapes, boggling in its scale and occasionally marvelling at its detail. I had plenty of time to think on this long journey. Bouldering has…