In the last week I have read Phillips’ book on the state of education and its decline over the last few decades – beginning in the 1960s and ending in the 1990s (the book was first written in 1996. The fact that the book ends in the 90’s is no testament to the rise in […]
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 […]
David Mitchell and Stephen Fry, just to pick a few names out of a large number, are intelligent people who appear on British television regularly. It is not unfair to suggest that they themselves probably do not watch much television which will account for their higher-than-average intellect. (Their intellect my actually be why they do […]
There is a danger in wishing to have understood everything during the process of writing a dissertation. I have spent the last year working on a 90 page Masters by Research dissertation about how Heidegger can alter the way we view graffiti and street art within the context of the city. I submitted it three […]
When I was doing my undergraduate degree I had lecturers apologies for the topic on which they were about to speak. This happened for a number of reasons. Perhaps the topic was a sensitive one or was a little crude. These are somewhat understandable. Or at least more understandable than this next one: the fact […]
Today I have put together what I am going to do throughout the month of August. A plan of how I am going to overcome a lack of self-control. While I have been quite routine about what I have been doing over the last two years I think my self-control could definitely be improved. There […]
The occurrence of memories and the memories of possible futures rip through the present. Like a shard of light in the dark. Without these thoughts we are blind, left unaware of our own desires. In order to forget we must remember, we have to remember what we want to forget. We only ever see the […]
Be fucked up but sell it. We are in a time where everything must be sold, not just sex, not just beautiful but the fucked and the ugly. You can be anything but, please, god, sell it. That is the message of today. In all popular culture there has been a move away from the […]
Come Back To Earth 