More curated tumblr jottings, which some people seemed to like.  Rewritten and expanded. There is, in fandom, an impulse to denounce whic...

I have become convinced that the fundamental appeal of the detective story lies in fantasies of autonomy. Think about it.  What does every...

The Doctor learns that he is bigoted because he refused to accept the idea that a Dalek could be good.  Indeed, he hates Daleks so much that...

The opposition between town and country is a perennial obsession of modern Western narrative art.  The idea of the division becoming diffuse...

All disused London Underground stations are connected via ghost trains that traverse conceptual topography. It's called the Abandoned ...

Some tumblr jottings, curated with pictures. Modernism.  The International Style.  Mies Van Der Rohe, Le Corbusier, etc.  A cl...

It is incredibly depressing to realise that I have been asking the rulers of the state I live in to refrain from bombing Iraq for my entire ...