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    A Radical Mask
    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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    A Brief Defense of Boredom
    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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    Squids, Climate and Bigotry
    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...
    46 views0 comments
    Social Media
    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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    Bloch’s Limits
    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...
    32 views0 comments
    The Sepia-Tinged New
    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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    Bloch contra Freud
    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...
    43 views0 comments
    The Limits of Professional Socialism
    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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    Stillness
    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...
    18 views0 comments
    A False Renewal
    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...
    26 views0 comments
    Socialist Misery and World Catastrophe
    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...
    20 views0 comments
    The Strange Undeath of Labourism
    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...
    45 views0 comments
    A Utopia of Writing
    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...
    39 views0 comments
    The Materiality of Memory
    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...
    28 views0 comments
    Organising Time
    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;...
    36 views0 comments
    Bloch’s Little Daydreamers
    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...
    80 views0 comments
    Dreams from a Networked Scriptorium
    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...
    6 views0 comments
    It Would be Impious
    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...
    15 views0 comments
    What’s Real After COVID-19?
    Rowan Fortune
    • Mar 26, 2021
    • 12 min

    What’s Real After COVID-19?

    This is part of a #FridayFlashback series of re-edited and rereleased essays. The essay, written in COVID-19's earlier days, explores the...
    22 views0 comments
    Fiction and the Eternal Now
    Rowan Fortune
    • Mar 19, 2021
    • 5 min

    Fiction and the Eternal Now

    This is part of a #FridayFlashback series of re-edited and rereleased essays. The essay is about the need to imagine beyond our current...
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