Rowan Fortune
Queering Everybody I
Review, Holly Lewis, 'The Politics of Everybody', part one. I write this in the hope of bringing four groups into dialogue: Marxist...
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Rowan Fortune
- Jan 21
- 5 min
Reading Deeply
Reading Jan Fortune's book, Writing Down Deep. I have no time for stories that lie. I don’t mean stories that are imaginary or...
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Rowan Fortune
- Jan 7
- 16 min
Goldmann's Wager
Review - Mitchell Cohen’s The Wager of Lucien Goldmann This was a Marxist who did not portray his aspirations for humanity’s future as an...
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Rowan Fortune
- Dec 31, 2022
- 4 min
Reading 2022
Looking back on a year of reading... We are not closed circuits, plastic wrapped—without words, things still speak to us, jolt us, free...
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Rowan Fortune
- Dec 24, 2022
- 5 min
The Materiality of Chainsaw Man
Review - Chainsaw Man I do not typically write reviews of animes on this blog, but I do have an overall fondness for the medium and...
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Rowan Fortune
- Nov 26, 2022
- 5 min
Twitter is Dead
a eulogy to a monster Before I express what I would like to say, I need to caveat this piece. No socialist assessment of the situation...
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Rowan Fortune
- Nov 19, 2022
- 4 min
Cross-examining Nietzsche and Marx
Review: How to Philosophise with a Hammer and Sickle, Jonas Čeika Overcoming modernity requires not only understanding its economic...
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Rowan Fortune
- Nov 5, 2022
- 5 min
In Defence of the Pursuit of Happiness
Demanding American utopianism, on virtues, happiness, and flourishing. Regulars to the blog might dimly be aware of a broader project I...
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Rowan Fortune
- Oct 29, 2022
- 6 min
Routines, Habits and Rituals
Differences and relationalities. “In our society many of the old rituals have lost much of their power. New ones have not arisen.”—R. D....
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Rowan Fortune
- Oct 22, 2022
- 6 min
Autism: euphoria in a hostile world
A review of Pete Wharmby’s What I Want to Talk About. Hyperfixations are a massive part of what it is to be autistic. While autism is...
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Rowan Fortune
- Oct 8, 2022
- 4 min
Reading as Meditation
Ritual, Habit, and Reading In an effort to reorganize aspects of my life (a cyclical endeavour as I am constantly tinkering with habits...
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Rowan Fortune
- Oct 1, 2022
- 5 min
Feminine Power
From Lilith to Mami Wata Depictions of the feminine are wrought with conflict over what is even meant by the word. The enculturation of...
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Rowan Fortune
- Sep 24, 2022
- 5 min
Speaking of Fire and Hate
How are two dissimilar things, dissimilar? With the Queen’s death, free speech has come back on the agenda. Only this time, rather than...
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Rowan Fortune
- Sep 17, 2022
- 4 min
Excuses for Grief
From reactionary grief to revolutionary joy. The UK is gripped in an inflationary cost of living crisis, driven in part by energy costs...
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Rowan Fortune
- Sep 10, 2022
- 5 min
A Hacked Life
From Skill Share to afterlives and alienation. ‘Life Hack’ is a term I broadly loathe. But equally, I do a lot of what falls under that...
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Rowan Fortune
- Sep 3, 2022
- 6 min
Queer Poetry
Reviews of three LGBTQ+ Poetry Books. Poetry is a form of writing well placed to capture the liminal, achieving this because poems are...
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Rowan Fortune
- Aug 27, 2022
- 5 min
The 56 Genders
From a drop down menu to infinity... In the long ago of 2014, Facebook extended its gender options with a drop-down menu for the first...
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Rowan Fortune
- Aug 20, 2022
- 7 min
Cultivating Shared Agency
The process of revolutionary consciousness. Lately, I have been thinking a lot about those political activities that inspire me, and...
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Rowan Fortune
- Aug 13, 2022
- 7 min
The Story of Edward Nashton
A delve into the villain of The Batman (2022) and what he says about this strange film. Spoilers ahead. There are a lot of opposing...
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Rowan Fortune
- Aug 6, 2022
- 5 min
Why so Political?
From Maverick to Star Trek, what is political? The word ‘political’ is frustratingly vague. Its usage, more than most words, is highly...
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