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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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    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...
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    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
    A Dogmatic Prime Directive
    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...
    133 views0 comments
    Howls of Fear and Loss, an English Dream
    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...
    83 views0 comments
    A Soul Detached
    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...
    176 views2 comments
    Disaster Clichés
    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...
    16 views0 comments
    Hope in the time of Covid
    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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    Introduction to Hope
    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...
    71 views0 comments
    Three Ways to Begin a Utopia
    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...
    25 views0 comments
    Utopia in a Burning World
    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...
    26 views0 comments
    From Consensus to Utopia
    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...
    4 views0 comments
    Why I am not an Egoist
    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...
    30 views0 comments
    How to Read a Utopia
    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...
    28 views0 comments
    Myth, Reaction, Utopia
    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...
    334 views2 comments
    The Grim Darkness of Anti-Politics
    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...
    43 views0 comments
    Loowa is Dead, Long Live Loowa
    Rowan Fortune
    • Oct 9, 2020
    • 8 min

    Loowa is Dead, Long Live Loowa

    This is part of a #FridayFlashback series of rereleased essays. This is a more autobiographical and humorous piece, and marks a break...
    9 views0 comments
    Four Utopians
    Rowan Fortune
    • Oct 2, 2020
    • 8 min

    Four Utopians

    This is part of a #FridayFlashback series of rereleased essays. One of the longer of these pieces, this one reviews a work about the life...
    13 views0 comments
    Donne and Wordsworth
    Rowan Fortune
    • Sep 19, 2020
    • 5 min

    Donne and Wordsworth

    Abstract Humanisms William Wordsworth’s mid-Nineteenth Century poem ‘We Are Seven’, which is my favourite poem, articulates a view of...
    56 views0 comments
    Utopian Q&A: Nina Fortune
    Rowan Fortune
    • Sep 16, 2020
    • 3 min

    Utopian Q&A: Nina Fortune

    Nina Fortune is a West London political activist and a writer. She has contributed various essays to Time To Mutiny! Rowan Fortune: It...
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