Thinking
Posts on books, music, philosophy and anything else.
2018
- Taking a break from blogging as I know it
- For RP: Ditch your accent and your regional pride
- The town with no centre
- Sickness in/as The Fall and Mark E Smith
2017
2016
- Work if you want to
- Note to self – keep all your data OS agnostic and in the cloud, and don't live your life on your phone
- Post no. 222
- Photography and other
2015
- Ambiguity
- Dieter Moebius, 1944–2015
- A film about Austerlitz
- The news isn’t free but we act as if it is
2014
- Mr Turner
- Writing to order
- Bring on the fan fiction (even if I won't read it)
- Smart dumbphones and classic iPods
- Write edit build publish edit build republish
- I get better as I get older
- Outliving Facebook
2013
- Morrissey, you and me
- iPads in classrooms
- Notes on Pnin
- HHhH and the value of print
- Krautrock
- A world without work
2012
- Borgen (or how the British don't do serious politics)
- The rhetoric of hard work
- Time
- Debt
- Ghost towns
- My favourite book
- Sunday
- Teachers don't read
- Paradise Lost
- The Rings of Saturn
- Polikushka – Or, the lot of a wicked court servant
- Patience (After Sebald)
- Why nobody mourns the Queen's English Society
- Lesson of The Kreuzer Sonata
- The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
- A Hero of our Time
- Ulysses
- Have Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri rewritten The Communist Manifesto for the twenty-first century?
- The Kreuzer Sonata
- The Sentry
- Bleak House
- Good book design is silent
- The Mystery of Edwin Drood
- The Great God Pan
- The Communist Manifesto
- Karl Marx
- The Emigrants
- This is not a novel
- Edgar Allan Poe Collected Writings
2011
- Free of place and duty
- Okies, chavs and responsibility deficits
- It's all marketing
- Underclass
- Age
- Nabokov on other writers
- The ideas of March
- Money
- The 18th Conclusion
- Dostoevsky, calligraphy and idiocy
- Understanding the Ur-Bororo
- Stillness in The White Ribbon
- 95 percent
- Paternoster Row
- Paternoster Square
- Tea
- Sorry
- J. S. Bach Solo Sonata no. 3 in C Major, BWV 1005
- The Killing (Forbrydelsen)
- Why I like Freedom
- Piano Quintet in F minor (Franck)
- (Un)Creatives