Thinking

Posts on books, music, philosophy and anything else.
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• For RP: Ditch your accent and your regional pride May 30, 2018
• The town with no centre Feb 18, 2018
• Sickness in/as The Fall and Mark E Smith Feb 14, 2018
• Esoteric Ipswich Nov 26, 2017
• Idoli Jul 03, 2017
• Jaki Liebezeit Jan 23, 2017
• Work if you want to Nov 05, 2016
• Note to self – keep all your data OS agnostic and in the cloud, and don't live your life on your phone May 30, 2016
• Post no. 222 Jan 16, 2016
• Photography and other Jan 01, 2016
• Ambiguity Sep 02, 2015
• Dieter Moebius, 1944–2015 Jul 26, 2015
• A film about Austerlitz Mar 22, 2015
• The news isn’t free but we act as if it is Mar 21, 2015
• Mr Turner Nov 22, 2014
• Writing to order Sep 18, 2014
• Bring on the fan fiction (even if I won't read it) Sep 16, 2014
• Smart dumbphones and classic iPods Sep 12, 2014
• Write edit build publish edit build republish Sep 08, 2014
• I get better as I get older Sep 04, 2014
• Outliving Facebook Aug 30, 2014
• Morrissey, you and me Oct 20, 2013
• iPads in classrooms Oct 05, 2013
• Notes on Pnin Jul 21, 2013
• HHhH and the value of print May 06, 2013
• Krautrock Jan 06, 2013
• A world without work Jan 06, 2013
• Borgen (or how the British don't do serious politics) Dec 30, 2012
• The rhetoric of hard work Dec 16, 2012
• Time Dec 13, 2012
• Debt Nov 18, 2012
• Ghost towns Nov 04, 2012
• My favourite book Oct 14, 2012
• Sunday Oct 07, 2012
• Teachers don't read Oct 06, 2012
• Paradise Lost Jul 06, 2012
• The Rings of Saturn Jul 05, 2012
• Polikushka – Or, the lot of a wicked court servant Jul 05, 2012
• Patience (After Sebald) Jun 27, 2012
• Why nobody mourns the Queen's English Society Jun 14, 2012
• Lesson of The Kreuzer Sonata Jun 14, 2012
• The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman May 09, 2012
• A Hero of our Time Apr 27, 2012
• Ulysses Apr 04, 2012
• Have Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri rewritten The Communist Manifesto for the twenty-first century? Mar 19, 2012
• The Kreuzer Sonata Mar 19, 2012
• The Sentry Mar 16, 2012
• Bleak House Feb 15, 2012
• Good book design is silent Feb 11, 2012
• The Mystery of Edwin Drood Feb 09, 2012
• The Great God Pan Feb 06, 2012
• The Communist Manifesto Feb 05, 2012
• Karl Marx Jan 30, 2012
• The Emigrants Jan 18, 2012
• This is not a novel Jan 17, 2012
• Edgar Allan Poe Collected Writings Jan 17, 2012
• Free of place and duty Dec 16, 2011
• Okies, chavs and responsibility deficits Dec 15, 2011
• It's all marketing Sep 02, 2011
• Underclass Aug 09, 2011
• Age Aug 09, 2011
• Nabokov on other writers Mar 25, 2011
• The ideas of March Mar 15, 2011
• Money Mar 03, 2011
• The 18th Conclusion Feb 24, 2011
• Dostoevsky, calligraphy and idiocy Feb 23, 2011
• Understanding the Ur-Bororo Feb 22, 2011
• Stillness in The White Ribbon Feb 12, 2011
• 95 percent Feb 10, 2011
• Paternoster Row Feb 09, 2011
• Paternoster Square Feb 06, 2011
• Tea Jan 27, 2011
• Sorry Jan 27, 2011
• J. S. Bach Solo Sonata no. 3 in C Major, BWV 1005 Jan 25, 2011
• The Killing (Forbrydelsen) Jan 23, 2011
• Why I like Freedom Jan 19, 2011
• Piano Quintet in F minor (Franck) Jan 18, 2011
• (Un)Creatives Jan 17, 2011
• Wainright typography May 19, 2008