Borges and Murakami: Philosophy in Fiction
Borges and Murakami Philosophy in fiction has had a long and storied history, from the mythology of Ancient Greece to Continue reading
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Storie Naturali: The Weird and Wonderful World of Luigi Serafini
Recently I received a book in the post. The words were written by an author I’d never heard of and it Continue reading
Gilbert Simondon: Two Lessons on Animal and Man
Simondon Gilbert Simondon (1924 – 1989) was arguably one of the most original and innovative thinkers in contemporary French philosophy. Continue reading
Calvino and the Codex Seraphinianus: A Psychedelic Mystery
On a cloudy Friday afternoon, sometime at the end of March, we were sat huddled on the floor of a Continue reading
Borges and the Book of Infinity
If the Library of Babel is a library that is all libraries, then what if there was a book that is all books? What if, in the pages of a book, one could find infinity itself?
Kafka, Orwell, Huxley: The Surveillance State in Literature
Even since the days before the Edward Snowden revelations there have been comparisons made between the powers of the NSA Continue reading
Borges and Calvino: Invisible Cities and Dreams
…Marco’s answers and objections took their place in a discourse already proceeding on its own, in the Great Khan’s Continue reading
No Place to Hide: The Importance of Glenn Greenwald’s Newest Book
‘There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or Continue reading
Blue Labyrinths 