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A History of British Architecture: Dissolution, Civil War, Empire and the Making of British Exceptionalism
Britain’s particular history of religious trauma, the response to the Reformation, the Dissolution of the Monasteries and the Civil War, created a culture in which the forms of religious life were stripped of their theological content repeatedly and the question of what was left became urgent and creative. What do…
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PIG IRON: Pete and Bernie’s Philosophical Steakhouse
Or: What Dignity Means Or: Ironies Explode Or: The Slow and the Blind Or: Claude and the Tourist do Derrida Dreadfully In which Alan Partridge goes to Paris, eats a testicle, and unknowingly demonstrates everything this series has been arguing. A Note on How This Essay Came To Exist We…
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The Stochastic Parrot and the Armchair Progressive
Preamble Below is yet another commentary on the impact of AI. It seems it is all the rage. Like just about every other piece I have read it encapsulates both a fascination with what the latest LLM’s can do and a criticism of what they can’t. All wrapped up in…
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The Stuff of Dreams and Exploitation: The Reckoning
Part 4 of 7 A canter through the history of luxury, consumption and desire The Reckoning LVMH’s fall, the superfake Rolex, Arnault versus the tech bros, and what happens when the phantasmagoria fails In the first quarter of 2025, Bernard Arnault — founder and chief executive of LVMH, the world’s…
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PIG IRON 3: Alienation, or Why He Feels Like a Tourist at Home
Essays in Dignity and Political Economy. Part 3: In which we explore the defining contradiction: Alienation
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PIG IRON 2: The Rise and Fall of Neo-Liberalism
Essays in Dignity and Political Economy. Part 2: In which we attempt to explain what Neo-Liberalism got right and why it has all gone wrong.
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The Stuff of Dreams and Exploitation: The White Marble Lie
In which we confront the ugly truth that lies beneath.
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A History of British Architecture: Gothic Britain c. 1150 to 1540
A meander through the history of British Architecture by era. Part 5 The Gothic.
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PIG IRON 1: How Money Works
Essays in Dignity and Political Economy. Part 1: In which we attempt to explain what money is.
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PIG IRON 0: What This Is
Essays in Dignity and Political Economy. Part 0: In which we explain what this is for.
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