I watch far too much TV . It is a distraction but also a remedy to the noiselessness that seems so daunting. Now I write about that distraction. There is a danger when a distraction is what you write about because everything then becomes wholly insular. It also allows you to maintain that behaviour while […]
A cup of tea in Britain, perhaps more so in England than Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, is a truly important thing. It is a cliché we are more than happy to buy into. Not in the sense of afternoon tea but a brew, a cup of tea you offer to someone when they come […]
If aspiring artists know that artists suffer for their work there is a likelihood they will see suffering as a gateway toward being a ‘real’ artist. The problem however is that once the aspiring artist knows that suffering will get them what they want it is probable that the suffering is no longer suffering at […]
When I say built a table I mean a flat pack furniture that I assembled following very vague instructions. Throughout his work Heidegger talks of craftsmanship and closeness to beings. More specifically the fact that techne means knowledge that comes from being in the midst of beings. For Heidegger, it is through standing in the […]
In a post a while back I explored the curse of artists only making two good albums. I argued that artists who died after their second album have a far better legacy than those who surpass that number and have careers that span decades. In this post I want to explore the work of St […]
At this time of year many people are setting out to improve and to change themselves. We don’t often think about why this is. We often hear things about new beginnings and fresh starts but why is it a fresh start? Is it not the case that the New Year marks a death of sorts […]
I have recently read a number of plays by the British play write Tom Stoppard. If I am honest I had not heard of him or his work until watching the BBC Imagine… documentary about his work and life. His work is funny and absurd in many ways. My focus on Heidegger’s philosophy led me […]
I have never actually seen The Shining but I have watched the documentary Room 237 which explores the different subtexts of the film many times. The ability to have an insight into something is then more important than actually seeing the work itself. Here I mean seeing the work itself in a Heideggerian sense. Not […]
Or was not at least an enthusiastic one for very long… While he was a member of the party Heidegger was not an avid Nazi. A lot of the discussion focused on his work are about his connections to National Socialism, as well as the political rhetoric of that time as well as his anti-Semitic […]
I must admit, I have stuck to the schedule completely. I have found however that I have been more productive than I have been in a very long time. I am slowly making my way through Heidegger’s The Origin of the Work of Art making sure I understand every part of it and I would […]
Come Back To Earth 