Discovering Zettelkasten and Rediscovering Luhmann
Discovering Zettelkasten and Ahrens’ guide to smart note-taking has been a blessing. But so too is re-discovering Luhmann…
Colour Revolution on a Chaise-Longue
I took to reading Catherine Merridale, Lenin on the Train (2016) this morning while reclining on a scarlet chaise-longue and bathing in autumnal sunshine. The cat was on my lap, but my attention kept slipping…. [Read More]
A New Direction for the Burning Archive
I am going to approach the blog with the advice of “document, don’t create” that I saw on popular vlogger on youtube, Ali Abdaal. For periods of the last ten years the blog has been my primary creative outlet. But that is now changing. I have my books in preparation, my podcast, my poems and my essays. And driving all of that my restless curiosity about how to save culture and history from the flames. So I am going to use the blog as the platform for all of those aspects of my author life.
Watch my poetry readings on YouTube
I have begun a YouTube channel, The Burning Archive, where I will feature short videos of…
My collected poems
I am very pleased to announced that I am publishing my collected poems, Gathering Flowers of…
Reflections on starting a podcast
Over the last month I have started a new venture, my podcast, The Burning Archive. I…
Announcing my podcast, The Burning Archive
Dear readers – you may now become dear listeners. Yes, I have started a podcast –…
Sponges, metamorphoses and psyche
In April 2017 I wrote the following post in an experiment, a form of improvised association…
13 ways of looking at a bureaucrat
In early 2017 I wrote a series of posts – or let us call them essays…
On living not by lies
2020 has taught us through bitter experience that our societies are not vaccinated against totalitarianism, and…