May 2010
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Key texts for a future philosophy
‘[I]f all matter inĀ the universe except the nematodes were swept away, our world would still be dimly recognizable, and if, as disembodied spirits, we could then investigate it, we should find its mountains, hills, vales, rivers, lakes and oceans represented by a thin film of nematodes. The locations of towns would be decipherable since for every massing of human beings there would be a...
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The sea is beautiful and spectacular. The ship is in the sea. The ship sinks...
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Jazireh AhaniĀ (Iron Island) 2005
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Typically modern
It may seem at first illogical that a radical theory of rationalism and consciousness, fit to puncture ahistoricism & the nostrums of both right & Fabian simpering, should be, in inchoate form, outlined in the short introduction to a 1936 collection of horror stories.
‘The writer of the ghost story should be a rational man, otherwise he cannot build up the matter-of-fact...