Nae Hauf-Way Hoose

I'll ha'e nae hauf-way hoose, but aye be whaur / Extremes meet - it's the only way I ken / To dodge the curst conceit o' bein' richt / That damns the vast majority o' men.

Monday, 27 September 2010

Number Two Home

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Reading Nobuko Adachi’s recent essay on “Japanese and Nikkei at Home and Abroad” over at Japan Focus prompted me to dig out my copy of Nor...

Monday, 13 September 2010

Satoshi Kon [1963 - 2010]

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I have very clear memories of the first time I saw Satoshi Kon ’s work, and of that sense of elation and excitement that comes when you feel...

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Saturday, 28 August 2010

Shakespeare's Seminal Economics

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We must find means by Trade, to vent our superfluities [Thomas Mun, A Discourse of Trade (1621)] All sexuality is a matter of economy [Del...

Sunday, 15 August 2010

This World, This Path

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この世界 Buoyed by good news this morning from the campaign in Australia for equal rights for same-sex couples, I want to share a detail from ...

Sunday, 18 July 2010

Sōseki's Books

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The Chase is a fairly unremarkable middle-class street off a fairly unremarkable stretch of parkland on Clapham Common, and all that unremar...

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Monday, 21 June 2010

Anthems for Nowhere

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i.m. 29.5.37 – 24.6.89 Like the stream, time, gently, little by little, goes by Two funerals from twenty-one years ago, both consumed then a...

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Tuesday, 15 June 2010

Ghost in the Shell

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Matthew Stoddard ’s essay on Ghost in the Shell , cognitive mapping and the ‘desire for communism’ is well worth reading. It’s very clever a...

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