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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

This is part of a #FridayFlashback series of re-edited and rereleased essays. The essay, written in COVID-19's earlier days, is a...

This essay is a personal taking-stock. Not an introspective reflection—I have one of those in the works—but a looking outwards, albeit...

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...

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...

This is part of a #FridayFlashback series of rereleased essays.This one revisits my impressions of the stakes after attending an...

This is part of a #FridayFlashback series of rereleased essays. This one looks at how after the collapse of a political consensus loses...

This is part of a #FridayFlashback series of rereleased essays. This is a more reflective philosophical piece, and one I'm not a hundred...

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...

Towards a New Utopian Mythology. Some of the ideas in this essay were developed in discussion with Rad Shiba, whose YouTube channel is...

This is part of a #FridayFlashback series of rereleased essays. This piece examines the strange aesthetic mismatch involved in the...

This is part of a #FridayFlashback series of rereleased essays. This is a more autobiographical and humorous piece, and marks a break...

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...

Abstract Humanisms William Wordsworth’s mid-Nineteenth Century poem ‘We Are Seven’, which is my favourite poem, articulates a view of...

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

Ken MacLeod is the author of seventeen science fiction novels, from The Star Fraction (1995) to The Corporation Wars trilogy (2018), many...