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Posted inGeneral, News/Politics

Easing the lockdown like clockwork

Peter Townshend by Peter Townshend 1 May 20201 May 2020

As we move into coronavirus lockdown level four, a scene from A Clockwork Orange illustrates the eerie limbo we inhabit

Posted inEnvironment, General

The feeling of living in a ‘dystopian’ present

Bert Olivier by Bert Olivier 29 November 201629 November 2016

You know that you are living in a “dystopian” or “degraded” era when virtually everything around you emits unmistakable signs that, whatever the underlying reasons might be, instead of signs of hope for a better future, those that signal a future we should perhaps fear (and perhaps feel guilty about), are slowly but surely accumulating. […]

Posted inEnvironment, News/Politics

The normalisation of the unthinkable

Bert Olivier by Bert Olivier 8 November 2013

We live in apocalyptic times. This is the considered belief of an extraordinary contemporary philosopher, who also phrases it as Living in the End Times — the title of a book that appeared in 2010 (Verso), and which contains between its covers so many intellectual tours de force that I, for one, will not even […]

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