Rowan FortuneApr 235 minA Radical MaskOn myths, masks, and a sensuous materialism. Despite the amount of academic reading and citations[…] it should also be remembered that...
Rowan FortuneJan 224 minA Brief Defense of BoredomWhat boredom means, on Voltaire and tedium. Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery,...
Rowan FortuneNov 7, 20211 minSquids, Climate and BigotryAn Anti*Capitalist Resistance roundup. Three new(ish) pieces of mine available on the A*CR. Capitalism without a Human Face is a review...
Rowan FortuneNov 6, 20217 minSocial MediaA 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...
Rowan FortuneOct 30, 20215 minBloch’s LimitsThe 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...
Rowan FortuneOct 9, 20215 minThe Sepia-Tinged NewA 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...
Rowan FortuneAug 21, 20214 minBloch contra FreudThe 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...
Rowan FortuneJun 11, 202111 minThe Limits of Professional SocialismThis is part of a #FridayFlashback series of re-edited and rereleased essays. This essay is a look back at various third way ideologies,...
Rowan FortuneJun 5, 20213 minStillnessPascal, 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...
Rowan FortuneMay 29, 20216 minA False RenewalTowards a genuine reckoning. Looking out of a window in West London in my mid-thirties I see myself looking out of another window in...
Rowan FortuneMay 28, 20217 minSocialist Misery and World CatastropheThis is part of a #FridayFlashback series of re-edited and rereleased essays. This essay accepts that the crisis is ahead of us and has...
Rowan FortuneMay 15, 20218 minThe Strange Undeath of LabourismFrom Centrist Dads to Zombie Politics Conservative MP wins Hartlepool by-election, the news this May’s Friday 7th. Like all political...
Rowan FortuneMay 14, 20215 minA Utopia of WritingThis is part of a #FridayFlashback series of re-edited and rereleased essays. This essay is a look at Andrey Platonov’s essay ‘Factory of...
Rowan FortuneMay 8, 20216 minThe Materiality of MemoryMemory, Resistance, Hope Memory is short. A political truism, trotted out as uncontroversial. A piece of cynical wisdom, expressed with a...
Rowan FortuneMay 7, 20215 minOrganising TimeThis is part of a #FridayFlashback series of re-edited and rereleased essays. This essay is a look at time for Marx, Ricœur and Hudis;...
Rowan FortuneMay 1, 20216 minBloch’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...
Rowan FortuneApr 30, 20214 minDreams from a Networked ScriptoriumThis is part of a #FridayFlashback series of re-edited and rereleased essays. This essay is about crises, Covid-19 and what shows through...
Rowan FortuneApr 9, 20216 minIt Would be ImpiousThis is part of a #FridayFlashback series of re-edited and rereleased essays. The essay is about apocolypse, revolution and Robinson...
Rowan FortuneMar 26, 202112 minWhat’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...
Rowan FortuneMar 19, 20215 minFiction and the Eternal NowThis is part of a #FridayFlashback series of re-edited and rereleased essays. The essay is about the need to imagine beyond our current...