It seemed that we had conceded the last of our utopian pretensions in the 1970s. The tradition that began with Plato’s Republic (c. 360 BC) and found a name in Thomas More’s Utopia (1516) appeared to come to an end with the failed experiments of Brasilia and Chandigarh – cities designed for a modernity that most of [...]
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QPR AND THE PROSPECT OF ELATION, OR, SITTING ON TRAINS ALONE
Note: Since this article was written, Queens Park Rangers have been relegated from the Premiership. “Hey, bud. I’ve decided next year I want you to teach me about football, watching football on TV. Show me the schedule, I want your team to be my team. Next year, teach me all about watchin’ football. I want [...]
WAYS OF WRITING—A PERSONAL COMPARISON
…I will now claim–until dispossessed–that I was the first person in the world to apply the typewriter to literature…The early machine was full of caprices, full of defects–devilish ones. It had as many immoralities as the machine of today has virtues. After a year or two I found that it was degrading my character, so [...]
THE QUEEN OF PARADOX
Human affairs…in which nearly everything is paradoxical. —Emmanuel Kant The media frenzy fizzled, patriotic sentiment defused, nostalgia negated—we can now explore the divided opinion and split interpretation of R.I.P Margaret Thatcher. Whether that is ‘rest in peace’ or ‘rust in peace,’ as some protesters shouted, is hard to determine. “Margaret Thatcher was the best Prime [...]
