Rowan Fortune
Distracting Cultures
From culture wars to the materiality of culture. “A mind cannot be independent of culture.”—Lev Vygotsky Cultures are a totality of the...
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Rowan Fortune
- Jul 16
- 4 min
Heat and Despair
If we are to survive the crisis we that face, we need more than just survival for its own sake. Pointless gadgets are a guilty pleasure...
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Rowan Fortune
- Apr 23
- 5 min
A Radical Mask
On myths, masks, and a sensuous materialism. Despite the amount of academic reading and citations[…] it should also be remembered that...
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Rowan Fortune
- Jan 22
- 4 min
A Brief Defense of Boredom
What boredom means, on Voltaire and tedium. Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery,...
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Rowan Fortune
- Nov 7, 2021
- 1 min
Squids, Climate and Bigotry
An Anti*Capitalist Resistance roundup. Three new(ish) pieces of mine available on the A*CR. Capitalism without a Human Face is a review...
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Rowan Fortune
- Nov 6, 2021
- 7 min
Social Media
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...
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Rowan Fortune
- Oct 30, 2021
- 5 min
Bloch’s Limits
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...
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Rowan Fortune
- Oct 9, 2021
- 5 min
The Sepia-Tinged New
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...
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Rowan Fortune
- Aug 21, 2021
- 4 min
Bloch contra Freud
The third installment of my close read of Ernst Bloch's The Principle of Hope. Every essay is a stand-alone piece, but if you want to...
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Rowan Fortune
- Jun 11, 2021
- 11 min
The Limits of Professional Socialism
This is part of a #FridayFlashback series of re-edited and rereleased essays. This essay is a look back at various third way ideologies,...
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Rowan Fortune
- Jun 5, 2021
- 3 min
Stillness
Pascal, Marx and sitting still... All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room. Putting to one side...
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Rowan Fortune
- May 29, 2021
- 6 min
A False Renewal
Towards a genuine reckoning. Looking out of a window in West London in my mid-thirties I see myself looking out of another window in...
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Rowan Fortune
- May 28, 2021
- 7 min
Socialist Misery and World Catastrophe
This is part of a #FridayFlashback series of re-edited and rereleased essays. This essay accepts that the crisis is ahead of us and has...
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Rowan Fortune
- May 15, 2021
- 8 min
The Strange Undeath of Labourism
From Centrist Dads to Zombie Politics Conservative MP wins Hartlepool by-election, the news this May’s Friday 7th. Like all political...
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Rowan Fortune
- May 14, 2021
- 5 min
A Utopia of Writing
This is part of a #FridayFlashback series of re-edited and rereleased essays. This essay is a look at Andrey Platonov’s essay ‘Factory of...
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Rowan Fortune
- May 8, 2021
- 6 min
The Materiality of Memory
Memory, Resistance, Hope Memory is short. A political truism, trotted out as uncontroversial. A piece of cynical wisdom, expressed with a...
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Rowan Fortune
- May 7, 2021
- 5 min
Organising Time
This is part of a #FridayFlashback series of re-edited and rereleased essays. This essay is a look at time for Marx, Ricœur and Hudis;...
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Rowan Fortune
- May 1, 2021
- 6 min
Bloch’s Little Daydreamers
The second installment of my close read of Ernst Bloch's The Principle of Hope. Every essay is a stand-alone piece, but if you want to...
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Rowan Fortune
- Apr 30, 2021
- 4 min
Dreams from a Networked Scriptorium
This is part of a #FridayFlashback series of re-edited and rereleased essays. This essay is about crises, Covid-19 and what shows through...
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Rowan Fortune
- Apr 9, 2021
- 6 min
It Would be Impious
This is part of a #FridayFlashback series of re-edited and rereleased essays. The essay is about apocolypse, revolution and Robinson...
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