Overcoming Perfectionism in Play Not since I was a teenager playing Baldur’s Gate II: Shadows of Amn has any computer game obsessed me as...

On myths, masks, and a sensuous materialism. Despite the amount of academic reading and citations[…] it should also be remembered that...

On mobile phones, movie commentaries, Let’s Plays and channel hopping. Sometimes I neglect to write an essay because my thoughts on a...

A Review of The Matrix Resurrections, a shrug of a film. At long last I found time to watch the newest addition to the Wachowskis’ Matrix...

A look at what causes procrastination, with a detour on writer's block. Since I have lately erred a fair bit on my weekly essay writing...

The limits of celebrity. I refuse to write about a certain mediocre author of bad children’s fantasy literature. In part because she...

an amateur gamer’s initial impressions It has been over a decade since Hidetaka Miyazaki took over the Demon’s Soul game and laid the...

In this blog I recount my recent experiences with illness and fatigue. Omicron, my second Covid-19 infection, has got me thinking about...

Game Review: Brothers and A Way Out. (Contains spoilers for both games.) The last few weeks has not been easy. Recovering from Omicron (I...

Why book spines are irreplaceable, a lighthearted blog. I have mentioned in previous but recent blogs that transporting a huge number of...

From Covid to Outrage, Neoliberalism to Care... At the time of writing the UK is embroiled in a political crisis. Or, rather, a crisis...

What boredom means, on Voltaire and tedium. Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery,...

From moving home to gothic horror. Horror often invokes moving. Indeed, and for obvious reasons, moving house is a core trope of the...

An Anti*Capitalist Resistance roundup. Three new(ish) pieces of mine available on the A*CR. Capitalism without a Human Face is a review...

A further appraisal of web 2.0, the left, and online fascism Some time ago I took the decision to leave twitter. I did this for...

The fourth instalment of my close read of Ernst Bloch's The Principle of Hope. Every essay is a stand-alone piece, but if you want to...

A look at camp, kitsch, bad movies, good movies, and the Matrix franchise. With a fourth Matrix film on its way, there is a renewed...

On teaching the short story Although I love to talk at length on my passions, sometimes oblivious to the social cues and niceties that...

A look back and forwards at The New. How long ago was The New? Some twenty odd years. There is a vast ocean of time between right now and...

We do not have an ideal world, such as we would like, where morality is easy because cognition is easy. Where one can do right with no...