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Let’s take a break from the malign influence of the populist feminists’ treatment of binary sexual difference, as, in Foucault’s words, ‘a causal principle, an omnipresent meaning’. Simple formulae validating themselves as ‘biological science’, not biological oversimplification,  have popular appeal but undermine equality based on diversity. Let’s celebrate Stephen F. Eisenman (1989) ‘Gauguin’s Skirt’, London, … More Let’s take a break from the malign influence of the rightwards-tending populist feminists’ treatment of binary sexual difference, as, in Foucault’s words, ‘a causal principle, an omnipresent meaning’. Simple formulae have popular appeal but undermine equality based on diversity. Let’s celebrate Stephen F. Eisenman (1989) ‘Gauguin’s Skirt’, London, Thames & Hudson.

‘Cooking the Books’ is a phrase used so regularly to mean ‘falsifying financial accounts for the purpose of tax avoidance or impressing company shareholders, that we forget that any book is entirely a preparation, often refined to high degrees of their readership’s taste, of raw materials that have cruder forms – forms less satisfying to … More Let’s cook the books!

Start with etymology: Don’t neglect this passage, as you read on:Wherein mere time passes idly, like scumUpon the surface of still waters stirred By just alighted coots. They pass us byLike lives, like deaths unreflecting horsemenContemplate at one wise poet’s grey slate, Whilst under stills, the turbulent currentsPlay tuneful ditties and dirges both. SpendMore time … More The passage of time