Rowan Fortune
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
- Jul 2, 2022
- 3 min
Dialogic Consciousness
From conversations to theory and art. In conversation, we can hold thoughts and reflect on problems sometimes for hours on end. This is...
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Rowan Fortune
- Jun 18, 2022
- 5 min
Triviality and Ordinariness
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary. The above quote from Blaise Pascal is one I used in last...
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Rowan Fortune
- Apr 23, 2022
- 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
- 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
- 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 17, 2021
- 7 min
A Dogmatic Prime Directive
Not a plot contrivance, nor cultural relativism, nor justified The Prime Directive is not just a set of rules; it is a philosophy… and a...
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Rowan Fortune
- Mar 20, 2021
- 5 min
Howls of Fear and Loss, an English Dream
This is an essay-review of England’s Dark Dreaming, Paul Watson's second book of artwork, which can be purchased here. England’s Dark...
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Rowan Fortune
- Mar 13, 2021
- 9 min
A Soul Detached
An autobiographical sketch of being neither/nor. I’ve never seen a soul detached from its gender but I’d like to. I’d like to see my own...
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Rowan Fortune
- Mar 12, 2021
- 4 min
Disaster Clichés
This is part of a #FridayFlashback series of re-edited and rereleased essays. The essay, written in COVID-19's earlier days, is a...
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Rowan Fortune
- Mar 6, 2021
- 4 min
Hope in the time of Covid
This essay is a personal taking-stock. Not an introspective reflection—I have one of those in the works—but a looking outwards, albeit...
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Rowan Fortune
- Feb 27, 2021
- 4 min
Introduction to Hope
Reading Ernst Bloch on Hope and Utopia. Thinking means venturing beyond. But in such a way that what already exists is not kept under or...
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Rowan Fortune
- Jan 16, 2021
- 4 min
Three Ways to Begin a Utopia
From reality breaking to strange visitors... A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves...
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Rowan Fortune
- Jan 1, 2021
- 4 min
Utopia in a Burning World
This is part of a #FridayFlashback series of rereleased essays.This one revisits my impressions of the stakes after attending an...
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Rowan Fortune
- Nov 27, 2020
- 5 min
From Consensus to Utopia
This is part of a #FridayFlashback series of rereleased essays. This one looks at how after the collapse of a political consensus loses...
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Rowan Fortune
- Nov 13, 2020
- 6 min
Why I am not an Egoist
This is part of a #FridayFlashback series of rereleased essays. This is a more reflective philosophical piece, and one I'm not a hundred...
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Rowan Fortune
- Oct 31, 2020
- 4 min
How to Read a Utopia
You can order a copy of Writing Nowhere or receive a free copy by join Rowan Tree Editing’s patrons; you can also acquire an anthology of...
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Rowan Fortune
- Oct 17, 2020
- 12 min
Myth, Reaction, Utopia
Towards a New Utopian Mythology. Some of the ideas in this essay were developed in discussion with Rad Shiba, whose YouTube channel is...
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Rowan Fortune
- Oct 16, 2020
- 11 min
The Grim Darkness of Anti-Politics
This is part of a #FridayFlashback series of rereleased essays. This piece examines the strange aesthetic mismatch involved in the...
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