We think we have the right to travel long distances based on the convenience to ourselves alone of our choices, but to go ‘cross-country’ was also once a choice about how much we have a right to militate against the country in the interests of congregations of human self-interest represented by towns.

March 15, 2026

We think we have the right to travel long distances based on the convenience to ourselves alone of our choices, but to go ‘cross-country’ was also once a choice about how much we have a right to militate against the country in the interests of congregations of human self-interest represented by towns. Cross-country is now … More We think we have the right to travel long distances based on the convenience to ourselves alone of our choices, but to go ‘cross-country’ was also once a choice about how much we have a right to militate against the country in the interests of congregations of human self-interest represented by towns.

In Michael Clune’s 2025 novel ‘Pan’ the narrator sees that sometimes what we think of as negative, like the black ‘fly-tree’ he sees traced in a window pane’ and determines to be ‘Pan’s insight’, exists out there irrespective of our thoughts and strategies to deal with them, because, perhaps: “You can’t change the way you are”.

March 14, 2026

In Michael Clune’s 2025 novel Pan, the narrator sees that sometimes what we think of as negative, like the black ‘fly-tree’ he sees traced in a window pane’ and determines to be ‘Pan’s insight’, exists out there irrespective of our thoughts and strategies to deal with them, because, perhaps: “You can’t change the way you … More In Michael Clune’s 2025 novel ‘Pan’ the narrator sees that sometimes what we think of as negative, like the black ‘fly-tree’ he sees traced in a window pane’ and determines to be ‘Pan’s insight’, exists out there irrespective of our thoughts and strategies to deal with them, because, perhaps: “You can’t change the way you are”.

Why we look at a ‘two-dimensional’ picture but watch a picture that contains movement.  The possible role of attentional features of vision.

March 13, 2026

Why we look at a ‘two-dimensional’ picture but watch a picture that contains movement.  The possible role of attentional features of vision. It seems entirely innocent to us to talk about ‘watching’ a film, TV or a ‘movie’ but we don’t often distinguish ‘watxhibg’ from a rather passive act of looking at or gazing at … More Why we look at a ‘two-dimensional’ picture but watch a picture that contains movement.  The possible role of attentional features of vision.

Do I have enough confidence  in my ability to rate how confident  other people are?

March 12, 2026

Do I have enough confidence in my ability to rate how confident  other people are? Confidence is another one of those slippery words as a noun. The adjective appearing to relate to it, as used in our prompt, appears less slippery but isn’t. When we name a person confident we usually mean, so much so that … More Do I have enough confidence  in my ability to rate how confident  other people are?

Unfortunately I, like most humans, continually find myself comparing myself, perhaps we do so because of the distinctive features of that animal we are, to a human animal only.

March 11, 2026

Unfortunately I, like most humans, continually find myself comparing myself, perhaps we do so because of the distinctive features of that animal we are, to a human animal only. However much the academy still sneers at the reductive in internet resourced explanations, these have a certain economy, though no doubt perhaps an economy of the … More Unfortunately I, like most humans, continually find myself comparing myself, perhaps we do so because of the distinctive features of that animal we are, to a human animal only.

Did she want to be made ‘The Bride’? Yes, but not the Bride of anybody, including Frankenstein! Seeing ‘The Bride’ today.

March 10, 2026

Did she want to be made ‘The Bride’? Yes, but not the Bride of anybody, including Frankenstein! Seeing ‘The Bride’ today. By Warner Bros. Pictures – IMP Awards, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=81164420 It is the year of being wives of men famed in and for their art, and as often misrepresented from some supposed original, for Jessie … More Did she want to be made ‘The Bride’? Yes, but not the Bride of anybody, including Frankenstein! Seeing ‘The Bride’ today.

I think finding yourself (when ‘it’ is lost) may be an irrelevance because it pretends that there is an undying continuous self or identity. This is a blog triggered by Jose Ando (trans by Kalau Almony 2026), ‘Jackson Alone’, London, Footnote Press.

March 8, 2026

I think finding yourself (when ‘it’ is lost) may be an irrelevance because it pretends that there is an undying continuous self or identity. This is a blog triggered by Jose Ando (trans by Kalau Almony 2026), ‘Jackson Alone’, London, Footnote Press. Novelist Jose Ando receives the Akutagawa Prize at an award ceremony held on … More I think finding yourself (when ‘it’ is lost) may be an irrelevance because it pretends that there is an undying continuous self or identity. This is a blog triggered by Jose Ando (trans by Kalau Almony 2026), ‘Jackson Alone’, London, Footnote Press.

I learned last what I ought to have learned first: that things connect most when they separate. Transit, Transition & Transfusion: Chiharu Shiota: ‘Threads of Life’ and Yin Xiuzhen: ‘Heart to Heart’ at the Hayward Gallery.

March 7, 2026

I learned last what I ought to have learned first: that things connect most when they separate. Transit, Transition & Transfusion: Chiharu Shiota: Threads of Life and Yin Xiuzhen: Heart to Heart at the Hayward Gallery seen on the morning of the 5th March 2026. This is a prompt question response and a reflection on the dual exhibition currently … More I learned last what I ought to have learned first: that things connect most when they separate. Transit, Transition & Transfusion: Chiharu Shiota: ‘Threads of Life’ and Yin Xiuzhen: ‘Heart to Heart’ at the Hayward Gallery.

‘Dracula’: See excelled here Stoker’s themes of transit, including travel and flow between places and through spaces and times; transition of, and between, character and character traits, even Stoker’s obsession with masculinity and femininity in and between concepts of sex/ gender; and, of course, blood transfusion.

March 6, 2026

Dracula: See excelled here Stoker’s themes of transit, including travel and flow between places and through spaces and times; transition of, and between, character and character traits, even Stoker’s obsession with masculinity and femininity in and between concepts of sex/ gender; and, of course, blood transfusion. I had read, in my copy of The Guardian, … More ‘Dracula’: See excelled here Stoker’s themes of transit, including travel and flow between places and through spaces and times; transition of, and between, character and character traits, even Stoker’s obsession with masculinity and femininity in and between concepts of sex/ gender; and, of course, blood transfusion.

Neo-Romanticism for the new queer you: exhibits at the private Galleries of Brooke-Walder, Duke Street, St. James, & Osbourne Samuel, Cork Street.

March 5, 2026

Neo-Romanticism for the new queer you: exhibits at the private Galleries of Brooke-Walder, Duke Street, St. James, & Osbourne Samuel, Cork Street. I blogged on this trip yesterday. Today, my main objective is fulfilled and I am starting this on the 390 bus towards King’s Cross and my hotel. Here, is the start point of … More Neo-Romanticism for the new queer you: exhibits at the private Galleries of Brooke-Walder, Duke Street, St. James, & Osbourne Samuel, Cork Street.

A brief London trip in honour of new and old kinds of obsessive romanticism.

March 4, 2026

A brief London trip in honour of new and old kinds of obsessive romanticism. At home I recently added to my little wall of prints related to my hero Johnny Minton. Once only represented by the nude study top left (as you look at the wall), a print discarded from the British Museum. The rest … More A brief London trip in honour of new and old kinds of obsessive romanticism.

Is there still ‘world enough and time’ or do you and they (world and time, that is) have ‘too short a date’?

March 3, 2026

The glum depressive pastiche exercise in the sonnet below is of course based on Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 (which appears as its appendix). The entire idea was to show if I could mimic how easily a cynic can undermine true verse and simplify its emotive nuance – taking only the ‘dark’ unto itself. My first attempt … More Is there still ‘world enough and time’ or do you and they (world and time, that is) have ‘too short a date’?