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 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 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 17, 20217 minA Dogmatic Prime DirectiveNot a plot contrivance, nor cultural relativism, nor justified The Prime Directive is not just a set of rules; it is a philosophy… and a...
Rowan FortuneMar 20, 20215 minHowls of Fear and Loss, an English DreamThis is an essay-review of England’s Dark Dreaming, Paul Watson's second book of artwork, which can be purchased here. England’s Dark...
Rowan FortuneMar 13, 20219 minA Soul DetachedAn 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...
Rowan FortuneMar 12, 20214 minDisaster ClichésThis is part of a #FridayFlashback series of re-edited and rereleased essays. The essay, written in COVID-19's earlier days, is a...
Rowan FortuneMar 6, 20214 minHope in the time of CovidThis essay is a personal taking-stock. Not an introspective reflection—I have one of those in the works—but a looking outwards, albeit...
Rowan FortuneFeb 27, 20214 minIntroduction to HopeReading Ernst Bloch on Hope and Utopia. Thinking means venturing beyond. But in such a way that what already exists is not kept under or...
Rowan FortuneJan 16, 20214 minThree Ways to Begin a UtopiaFrom reality breaking to strange visitors... A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves...
Rowan FortuneJan 1, 20214 minUtopia in a Burning WorldThis is part of a #FridayFlashback series of rereleased essays.This one revisits my impressions of the stakes after attending an...
Rowan FortuneNov 27, 20205 minFrom Consensus to UtopiaThis is part of a #FridayFlashback series of rereleased essays. This one looks at how after the collapse of a political consensus loses...
Rowan FortuneNov 13, 20206 minWhy I am not an EgoistThis is part of a #FridayFlashback series of rereleased essays. This is a more reflective philosophical piece, and one I'm not a hundred...
Rowan FortuneOct 31, 20204 minHow to Read a UtopiaYou 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...
Rowan FortuneOct 17, 202012 minMyth, Reaction, UtopiaTowards a New Utopian Mythology. Some of the ideas in this essay were developed in discussion with Rad Shiba, whose YouTube channel is...
Rowan FortuneOct 16, 202011 minThe Grim Darkness of Anti-PoliticsThis is part of a #FridayFlashback series of rereleased essays. This piece examines the strange aesthetic mismatch involved in the...
Rowan FortuneOct 9, 20208 minLoowa is Dead, Long Live LoowaThis is part of a #FridayFlashback series of rereleased essays. This is a more autobiographical and humorous piece, and marks a break...
Rowan FortuneOct 2, 20208 minFour UtopiansThis is part of a #FridayFlashback series of rereleased essays. One of the longer of these pieces, this one reviews a work about the life...
Rowan FortuneSep 19, 20205 minDonne and WordsworthAbstract Humanisms William Wordsworth’s mid-Nineteenth Century poem ‘We Are Seven’, which is my favourite poem, articulates a view of...
Rowan FortuneSep 16, 20203 minUtopian Q&A: Nina FortuneNina Fortune is a West London political activist and a writer. She has contributed various essays to Time To Mutiny! Rowan Fortune: It...