Author: PGR
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overgrown, with a rich ecosystem: Sheri S Tepper’s Grass
There are schismatic priesthoods! There is legacy Catholicism! There is a vanished alien race and the empty cities it left behind! There is… horse-riding?
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merely directions which allow the chauffeur to park the limousine
I had to cycle to Rosengård this morning to get some olive oil—what can I say; it’s a Malmö thing, y’all—and so I took it as an opportunity to make a tiny dent in the podcast backlog. My selection, perhaps unwisely for a Monday morning, was a recording of Ash Sarkar interviewing Slavoj Žižek on…
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09MAY24 / Albini
I decided a long time ago that I won’t have heroes any more, but I still have people I admire. Albini makes that list for a lifetime’s commitment to what he believed in, even when it made things difficult.
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paradigms don’t die easy (but they die all the same)
There’s a fin-de-siècle feel to things at the moment, which manifests (for me at least) as a sort of oscillation between deep ennui and the feeling one gets just before dawn at the summer solstice.