Fleabag and Killing Eve

 I don't want to own anything that won't fit in my coffin. 
~ Fred Allen at Sandra’s Dural

How best to tell the story of philosophy? Instead of moving from one peak to another, wander the fertile valleys in between   Filosofer 


Against knowledge. It’s a crude, archaic concept, a relic of a bygone age, and it harms our real ways of thinking... Against the Rules  

'Deeply concerned': Labor demanded an investigation into classified leak

For Adrienne Rich, the great philosopher of secrets, the wish to keep and share them goes to the heart of intimacy, and why we  Fleabag 2nd Season even better than 1st. An indelible portrait of toxic femininity. No accident that the brilliant Phoebe Waller-Bridge also wrote Killing-Eve featuring a different female killer but in male style and fantasy form rather than the more mature & realistic Fleabag

• Rodin, not Leopold
• Ghost of Ayn Rand
• Science of barbecue
• Kafkaesque things
• Sven Lindqvist, R.I.P.
• On gender-neutral language
• Artists as parents
• Regarding Steven Pinker
• How to write a thriller
• Modernism of I.M.Pei
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• Today is the 95th anniversary of the death of Franz Kafka. And I love Franz Kafka. He was one of my earliest literary obsessions—I even read Philip Roth’s The Breast, for him. I know: sacrifice. So on the day of his death, I decided to grease (if only slightly) what really must be a constant spinning of his corpse in his grave by collating a number of things that we, as a societal group, have decided to count as “Kafkaesque.”
  Many people have pointed out that the term “Kafkaesque” is grossly overused. Others have noted how it is quite often misused. For the record, in 1991, Kafka biographer Frederick R. Karl defined the term this way:
  What’s Kafkaesque is when you enter a surreal world in which all your control patterns, all your plans, the whole way in which you have configured your own behavior, begins to fall to pieces, when you find yourself against a force that does not lend itself to the way you perceive the world. You don’t give up, you don’t lie down and die. What you do is struggle against this with all of your equipment, with whatever you have. But of course you don’t stand a chance. That’s Kafkaesque.
  Kafkaesque things