Review of “Wild Abandon”, Joe Dunthorne, TLS, August 19th 2011
This is a brief review of an entertaining second novel by Joe Dunthorne. It didn’t quite have the success of Submarine, which was a pity, since in many ways the…
Category: collapse of complex societies
“Ample food and sleep” : A thought on retrospective diagnosis, visions and full bellies
From Geoffrey Moorhouse’s fine bookSun Dancing A clinical diagnosis of Aedh’s erotic and other visions would doubtless have concluded that , whatever shaped them in his psyche, they were triggered…
Laptop Warriors – on the “Stealing the Network” series. SAU Blog, October 2007
As it stands, my last contribution to the Social Affairs Unit blog is this piece on two novels written by (firstly) Ryan Russell, Tim Mullen (Thor), FX, Dan “Effugas” Kaminsky, Joe Grand, Ken…
“our work, though perhaps smart, was by no means wise”
The geodesic dome was the brainchild of Buckminster Fuller, a polymath perhaps noted best for the number of his ideas than the successful execution of any of them. Geodesic domes are…
10 things I’ve learnt about conservation optimism
I have posted before about #OceanOptimism. This post is an interesting summary (in handy listicle format) of some learnings from the movement and the wider conservation optimism philosophy. This is…
Hore Abbey, Cashel
Hore Abbey is literally overshadowed by theRock of Cashel. It is well worth taking the path down from the Rock to the considerably less touristed Abbey. There is a relative…
Maren Meinhardt on an urban tree
From the TLS, June 2nd: Outside my window, there is a tree. Even without it, the view is not at all unpleasant: a row of Victorian houses, cars, a skew-whiff…
“The Glamour of the West” D L Kelleher, 1928
The Glamour of the West seems to be part of a series by D L Kelleher, following on from The Glamour of Dublin and The Glamour of Cork. Kelleher is an obscure figure now.…
Séamus Sweeney 