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Simon Taylor

Simon Taylor

https://orcid.org/0009-0008-6687-4647

chain(links) & magic(realism): US prisons ban fantasy and scifi

the first link lays it out: “it’s especially cruel that U.S. prisons ban magical literature.” — Moira Marquis, “Censoring Imagination: Why Prisons Ban Fantasy and Science Fiction,” LITHUB, December 7, 2023 — Francesco Queirolo, Disinganno, 1753 … to be free of illusion …? [the title of the sculpture can be given as…

L E C T U R E_A B O U T_Ø

‘All I know about method,’ Cage writes at the end of ‘Lecture on Nothing,’ ‘is that when I am not working I sometimes think I know something, but when I am working, it is quite clear that I know nothing.’ Others might call that enlightenment.

pico Iyer from the half known life: excerpts | wrong dream

Find a heaven within, Rumi had written–and it came back to me now as Ali, the driver and I sat on a platform in the sun, munching on chicken with barberries–and you enter a garden in which “one life is worth more than all of Paradise.” It had

… take the only tree that’s left/ stuff it up the hole in your culture … or, my robot left home to solve the world’s problems

… in January 2020 Greta Thunberg went as far as to specify just eight years [to avert a global castrophe]. Just a few months later, the president of the UN’s General Assembly gave us 11 years to avert a complete social collapse whereupon the planet will be simultaneously burning (unquenchable

Баба-Яга … lives with her two sisters also called Baba Yaga in in a forest hut that spins continually on birds’ legs

… Baba Yaga is also the name used by an Ukrainian aerial reconnaissance unit under the command of Ruslan Mazovetsky, known as “Barmaley.” At the end of Claire Dederer’s Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma two things happen. Dederer admits to her own monstrosity. She’s a drunk. The other thing

this is …

I was so struck by this photo of Fritz Haber, I have done a … that thing where a lecturer or speaker shows a slide and then simply says, This is … in this case Fritz Haber. In the case I’m thinking of, it was Martin Heidegger which, in that case

Liberal Democracy

= truth defined by market competition.