“a media to look at rather than to read”
This article from Politico on Robert D’Agostino, the man behind the website Dagospia, is an interesting read on both Italian media/politics and the general mental landscape of the internet. I…
Category: collapse of complex societies
Honesty on Google vs Facebook – a footnote from John Lanchester
An essay worth reading in full on Facebook which contains this amusing footnote: Facebook already had a huge amount of information about people and their social networks and their professed…
Benjamin Parzybok . “The Hole in the Reef”, Reckoning #1
From Reckoning “an annual journal of creative writing on environmental justice”, comes this tight little story about a father and son, the ocean, and waste by Benjamin Parzybok. A couple…
From “The Making of Mr Bolsover”, Cornelius Medvei
Perhaps then, Mr Cruikshank suggested, he would like to tell everyone which political figures he did admire. Without hesitation Mr Bolsover named Lord Salisbury, Queen Victoria’s last prime minister. Amid…
Appreciating nature in the 6th Century: From “The Consolation of Philosophy”, Boethius
It is often argued that appreciation of nature is a phenomenon of industrial societies. The implication being that “nature” is something that intellectuals and city folk appreciate – not people…
The Derrynaflan Monastery and Easter Pilgrimage
Originally posted on Pilgrimage In Medieval Ireland:
Derrynaflan is best known for its medieval metal work, including a two-handled chalice known as the Derrynaflan chalice, on display in the National…
Statuary from Kilcooley Abbey, Tipperary
Kilcooley Abbey is near Gortnahoe in the Slieveardagh area of Tipperary . It is home to Tipperary’s only pyramid (as far as I know) Above: A mermaid holding a…
“False tension between the Christian and classical worlds”: from Victor Watts’ Preface to his translation of “The Consolation of Philosophy”, Boethius
A while ago I blogged about Albrecht Durer’s engraving of St Jerome in his study. I linked to and quoted an article on St Jerome by James R Edwards which…
