The public toilet; the final public space sheltered from the all-seeing eyes of staff member, security camera, Other Pedestrians. As we tiptoe through our streets, from shop to shop or car to house, the feeling is not of 'our' space, a public space, but of a space under surveillance, and thus often of unpleasantness or danger... the public toilet ( Read more... )

My article was accepted by the magazine! ('the phantom of the monolith' below - don't worry, i changed the name). cool ( Read more... )

What can we say about consciousness? One of the many great mysteries remaining to us, unfathomably deep, apparently.. we all (those that are reading this) have a form of consciousness, but is it uniform? If it is heterogenous, is it still of a general 'human' character - or is the arc of consciousness one that draws a line across all forms of life ( Read more... )

Fox was the only living man. There was no earth ( Read more... )

Check out the propaganda poster I got from a cool history lecturer! (who used to be a translator for Gorbachev to the west ( Read more... )

"repression and ideology... do not constitute the struggle between forces but are only the dust thrown up by such a contest."

Yeah!

The night falls down
purple and black
over the town.

knuckled dark fingers of trees
and broad black chimneys
blot out the many lights,

and here we sit

under

them

all.

Everything seems sad, or strange, or ominous and huge, or distant today... starting the day with a bright eyes album didnt help, and then I bought a saturday paper, the overload of information of which is a headfuck once you're in a zone of focus & refuge from the spectacle of the media ( Read more... )

A new article of mine - does this lay down the Theory too heavily, or is it ok to understand? I don't want to alienate people, but nor do I want to talk down to them.

( The Phantom of the Monolith )

The back of my throat is raw, my immune system is probably fucked, but I have seen and experienced a beautiful city.