Getting into Alan Watts is one of the more acceptable ways to have a mid-life crisis / enclothed cognition is an interesting phenomenon / the Japanese have a standard size for sports towels so it’s a shame we can’t find more over here / it’s always useful to compare calendars / I don’t understand why relationality has become so popular in design circles / an old critique of hackspaces / the work of Very Very Far Away is very 2009 (in a good way) and I’m sorry I can’t attend their upcoming event / Dar al Taqwa is a bookshop in West London that has started a fundraiser.
A new section here that could best be described as a ‘commonplace book‘:
- ‘Beauty in language, fun in hell’ – A review of László Krasznahorkai
- ‘That peculiar loneliness that comes from knowing and seeing a lot that you can’t do much about’ – On John Le Carré’s craft
- ‘Architecture is trapped inside each of us’ – heard on a tour of the Venice Vatican Chapels
- ‘you find yourself dimly reflected, implicated among the things in the room.’ – A review of Gerhard Richter’s exhibition
- ‘Look at Ukraine. Look at Gaza. I haven’t changed a solitary thing. I mean it. I feel as if I’ve been riding on other people’s pain over the last 60 years, and their pain hasn’t helped prevent this kind of tragedy. We’ve learned nothing.’ – Don McCullin