‘British liberalism’s sweet, sweet combo of the snide and the intellectually vapid. A refusal to think outside of a news-moment, an inability to read images as texts, an abject contempt for deep thinking, a suffocating “rationality” and incuriosity at its heart.’
— Dan Hancox
‘Late modernity is, after all, a remarkably shrill and glaring reality, a dazzling chaos of the beguilingly trivial and terrifyingly atrocious, a world of ubiquitous mass media and constant interruption, a ceaseless storm of artificial sensations and appetites, an interminable spectacle whose only unifying theme is the imperative to acquire and spend.’
— David Bentley Hart, The Experience of God.
Beyond the city there must be a rubbish heap of diseased stones.
‘When will this hellish patience come to an end?’
— Kuchlavok’s letter to comrades, August 1917
‘[E]xplanation of the irrational is replaced by tabooed luxuriance within it.’
— Bridget Fowler
‘I am only infallible if I speak infallibly but I shall never do that, so I am not infallible.’
— John XIII
What is the nightmare from which a distressed cat abruptly wakes? From what figure does it flee?
