MY BLOG
This blog is devoted to a study of modern cultural phenomena such as contemporary art, movies, books, plays, politics, news, social media, science, etc.…
JOHN’S BLOG
End of the World Revisited
I am homeless, wandering, some connection with others who then are gone. I am in a city. I have a plastic bag with some things…
Flowing
I had an odd experience yesterday. I went for a walk through Callan Park, an old disused psychiatric facility here in Sydney. Anita and I…
Do You Read? Really Read?
I read a lot! I always have. I read the few English “classics” in my mother’s library well before my teens. They were just there…
What Matters?
I dreamed last night: I am to give a talk to a group of students, others.The atmosphere is friendly and eager. I am to give…
Holy Grail
My recent essay Holy Grail: Beyond the Brain is my latest attempt to find a literary method for expressing the simultaneity of the depths of interiority…
Black Vortex
Many years ago, during the time that I had been rudely drafted into the question of the end of the world, I suffered the following…