The Guardian/BBC/The Telegraph. I had heard through a friend of Barry’s that Barry wasn’t doing well. I’d been in correspondence with this friend who alerted me to Barry’s appreciation of Frederick Rolfe’s Hadrian the Seventh, an edited volume that I’m currently working on. Barry was to have provided some blurb for the book. barry humphriescomedydudley…
See The Guardian. Plus photographer Chris Duffy’s book Aladdin Sane 50. ‘Camille Paglia, a US feminist academic, described the picture as “one of the most emblematic and influential art images of the past half-century, reproduced or parodied in advertising, media and entertainment worldwide”’. Ken Scott the producer will be in conversation with Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy at Classic…
His passing announced today. The Guardian/Pitchfork/NYT cinemaDavid BowieDAVID BYRNEJapanmerry christmas mr lawrenceRyuichi Sakamoto
Published today. classical liberalismdavid gordoneconomic equalityhistorical injusticeproperty rightsWanjiru Njoya
Released on this date in 1973. An insightful assessment by someone who hadn’t been born yet. And by someone who was. Abigail Devoehouses of the holyjimmy pagejohn bonhamjohn paul jonesLed ZeppelinMichael NolandRobert Plant
Cosmos + Taxis classical liberalismcosmos+taxisideologyLudwig Wittgensteinphilosophy of social scienceRobert Vinten
Only today did I learn of the passing of a colleague and friend, Gloria Zúñiga y Postigo. I’d met Gloria at an Atlas conference back in 2008 in Portsmouth. Dave Hardwick and I were most taken with the quality of her mind and equally by her conviviality and by her no-nonsense stance towards some of…
Decency. Scandal in a Small Town. cinemafilmJew hatredRaquel WelchScandal in a Small Town
Available here. As founding editor I’m pleased to announce that all articles accepted for publication in Episteme from 1st March 2023 will be ‘open access’; published with a Creative Commons license and freely available online. EPISTEMEEpistemologysocial epistemology
New York Times obituary BURT BACHARACHHerb Alpert
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