Seat in the Shade 2016 - Coleman Barks

“This We Have Now” - An Interview with Coleman Barks

Somewhere In Scotland

Tinariwen - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)

By The Waters

We lay down and wept...

Iftar On Istiklal (2013)

Ramazan

Spring Comes To Walden Pond

Leonard Cohen - Who By Fire (Live in London)

Jodi Dean - The Communist Horizon

HUMAN

In Times Like These...

There is only one place to turn.



A book for all and none.

Hegel And Revolution

Book review.

Voluntary Servitude: The American Tragedy

Tolstoy read La Boetie's treatise and developed his theory of non-violent non-cooperation from it. Gandhi read Tolstoy, adapted his theory to the circumstances of foreign occupation and empire, and on that basis drove the British from India. MLK read Gandhi, adapted the theory to the circumstances of racial apartheid in the U.S., and on that basis became a key figure in the civil rights movement of the 1960s. The same principles could be used to break the stranglehold of the two-party system upon our politics, potentially changing their very nature (which the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed to be utterly dysfunctional), but too many people have a vested interest in that system or believe, contrary to the evidence, that it is the greatest political system on earth--all we need to do is get rid of Trump. But the dysfunction has been evident for decades now (long before Trump's election) to anyone who has been paying attention. And so it is clear that our servitude to a broken system is voluntary; and therein lies the American tragedy.

Hugh MacDiarmid: A Portrait by Margaret Tait (1964)

A Reinterpretation Of The World

Deleuze on Nietzsche.

In Montaigne's Tower

Rendez-vous with Dhafer Youssef

Ossian

The Dream of Ossian.

Skald's Death

I have known all the storms that roll.
I have been a singer after the fashion
of my people – a poet of passion.
All that is past.
Quiet has come into my soul.
Life’s tempest is done.
I lie at last
A bird cliff under the midnight sun.

~ Hugh MacDiarmid