Looking for, and so far unable to find, my copy of Hill’s A Treatise of Civil Power. I’d been reading Without Title on the train, thinking it was his most recent and wondering why it wasn’t as good as I remembered (it has its moments). Most of the lines I wanted to quote from it [...]
I doubt whether anyone reading this will need to be told that Mark K-P has written brilliantly on Michael Jackson, or that Shaviro has too, and so has Owen. I’m afraid I’m not going to write about Jackson, brilliantly or otherwise, because I haven’t much to say besides the obvious: Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get [...]
Here to my mind is the objection to taking love as ultimate. There is no higher form of unity, I can agree. But we do not know love as the complete union of individuals, such that we can predicate of it the entirety of what belongs to them. And if we extend the sense of [...]
Jane Dark’s Sugarhigh! continues to post extracts from this, by the looks of things tremendous, publication. Today’s, on Sinead O’Connor’s reading of Prince’s Nothing Compares 2 U, especially caught my eye for what should by now be fairly obvious reasons:
But there is another way to describe the matter, intrinsic to the song and the particularity [...]
As promised, a response to questions about “militant dysphoria”. I’m going to respond very broadly rather than going point by point, and inevitably there will be some (good) points I won’t have addressed here; the purpose of this is to get some general orientation on a couple of areas that commentors highlighted as problematic.
A common [...]
Misi ergo ad eos nuncios dicens: opus grande ego facio et non possum discendere; cur cessare oportet opus, si desistero et discendero ad vos. - Nehemiah 6:3
That’s (in Latin) the epigraph of Geoffrey Hill’s The Triumph of Love, about which possibly more soon. I started a project - a PhD thesis, no less - on [...]
Alex and others ask various good questions in comments on the preceding posts - my immediate response in almost all cases is “how the heck should I know?” - but one can always, with a litle effort, do better than that, so I’ll try to address them in a round-up later on…
1969, just prior to going underground. She looks, here, simply depressed - the body language screams at you - agitated and heavy at the same time. Not a good way to be:
Here she is in 1967, groomed and made-up, speaking on television. Some of the mannerisms are there - the downward glance, looking away - [...]
This is the website of Dominic Fox, a writer, musician and working programmer living in Northampton in the UK.
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The CTM Wiki, a user-authored resource for readers of the book Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming, by Peter van Roy and Seif Haridi.