Simon Taylor

Shklar presents Johann Gottfried von Herder, the first Romantic: We know that we exist, and that God is, not because we think, but because our whole being tells us that it is so. We are directly and inevitably conscious of existence, just as we cannot even imagine nothingness. There can

Asked to write a short intro for Avi Duckor-Jones, I found a column he wrote on the Affirm Press website just over a year ago for the publication of his novel Max. Called “The battle of living in duality,” it deals with the duality of being the son of a

It is risky to outsource human thought to machines that lack the capacity for such thought. — David B. Auerbach, Meganets, 2023, p. 239

death returns to the sea … is the other lyric running through my mind. I imagine it, am I imagining it?, sung, on the album September Songs, produced by Hal Willner, of Kurt Weill’s songs. “Just as you’ve destroyed your life …” is C.P. Cavafy’s. (“In these dark

One of these things is not like the other: … except that the deconstruction Auckland Council has in, I hesitate, mind in the official channel of communication using the term is only one of three options for the houses damaged when the last atmospheric river disgorged on the city … tonight another

257. This changing the coincidental to the inevitable in poetic imagination is no different from scientific imagination. Poetry is also a process of problem-solving and precise experimentation. But don’t forget, it is also a prank and a game. … and scientific imagination no less? … at what point does it cease