Paul Watson
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Artist | Hastings, UK | He/him | Grand Council of #Hookland | https://www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/
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"The fabric of reality is fraying in England: the old queen is dead, a disgraced prince has been ousted by the new king, his older brother: Gormenghast is changing, and Gormenghast both relies on and demands nothing ever changing..."
– Paul Watson (lazaruscorporation.co.uk)
– Paul Watson (lazaruscorporation.co.uk)
Pattern recognition
The fabric of reality is fraying in England: the old queen is dead, a disgraced prince has been ousted by the new king, his older brother: Gormenghast is changing, and Gormenghast both relies on and d...
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November 10, 2025 at 9:46 PM
"The fabric of reality is fraying in England: the old queen is dead, a disgraced prince has been ousted by the new king, his older brother: Gormenghast is changing, and Gormenghast both relies on and demands nothing ever changing..."
– Paul Watson (lazaruscorporation.co.uk)
– Paul Watson (lazaruscorporation.co.uk)
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Latest acquisition: Undefined Boundary: The Journal of Psychick Albion Vol 4 Issue 1
November 8, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Latest acquisition: Undefined Boundary: The Journal of Psychick Albion Vol 4 Issue 1
Cool. Now do the same to the rest of the royal family.
October 31, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Cool. Now do the same to the rest of the royal family.
New blog post:
Culture Wars, episode 1: The Fascist Menace
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Culture Wars, episode 1: The Fascist Menace
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Culture Wars, episode 1: The Fascist Menace
In a post here back in 2020—entitled Albion: utopianism and the post-apocalyptic pastoral—I mentioned that culture and the arts are the main way to inspire someone about a political viewpoint: Despite...
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October 30, 2025 at 2:05 PM
New blog post:
Culture Wars, episode 1: The Fascist Menace
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Culture Wars, episode 1: The Fascist Menace
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"I have an instinctive fondness for the notion of a culture war, but inevitably it turns out to be less fun than it sounds, being shorthand for dim bigotry."
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culturalsnow.blogspot.com/2025/10/abou...
About cultural (in)coherence
I have an instinctive fondness for the notion of a culture war, but inevitably it turns out to be less fun than it sounds, being shorthand f...
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October 29, 2025 at 9:39 AM
"I have an instinctive fondness for the notion of a culture war, but inevitably it turns out to be less fun than it sounds, being shorthand for dim bigotry."
culturalsnow.blogspot.com/2025/10/abou...
culturalsnow.blogspot.com/2025/10/abou...
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friend shared this, immediately updated my settings
October 27, 2025 at 4:28 PM
friend shared this, immediately updated my settings
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Hastings' Alexandra Park becomes a small gulf of the English Channel following a 10m rise in the sea level on the Sea Level Rise 3D Map
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Sea Level Rise 3D Map
A 3D map of sea level rise simulation. This data visualization was produced by Akihiko Kusanagi.
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October 24, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Hastings' Alexandra Park becomes a small gulf of the English Channel following a 10m rise in the sea level on the Sea Level Rise 3D Map
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nagix.github.io/sea-level-ri...
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An exhibition of fantasy maps all drawn by the fantasy author, Ursula K. Le Guin, has opened in central London.
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/map...
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Mapping Earthsea: Ursula K. Le Guin's maps go on display at the Architectural Association
An exhibition of fantasy maps all drawn by the fantasy author, Ursula K. Le Guin, has opened in central London.
www.ianvisits.co.uk
October 14, 2025 at 11:25 AM
An exhibition of fantasy maps all drawn by the fantasy author, Ursula K. Le Guin, has opened in central London.
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/map...
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/map...
A few days ago I added the ability to follow my blog directly through ActivityPub (Mastodon et al). It's still very much "in beta" and I expect there will be bugs, but it seems to be working so far.
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Subscribe to this blog via … ActivityPub
I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about how I can make it easier for people to follow this blog. I usually post a link to any new blog post on my social media accounts, but it’s very easy for people…
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October 11, 2025 at 11:57 AM
A few days ago I added the ability to follow my blog directly through ActivityPub (Mastodon et al). It's still very much "in beta" and I expect there will be bugs, but it seems to be working so far.
www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artist...
www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artist...
Ancient History AND Anarchism - that's an immediate order from me!
Radical Antiquity: Free Love Zoroastrians, Farming Pirates, and Ancient Uprisings
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Radical Antiquity: Free Love Zoroastrians, Farming Pirates, and Ancient Uprisings
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Radical Antiquity - Pluto Press
A groundbreaking history of radically democratic societies in antiquity
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October 11, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Ancient History AND Anarchism - that's an immediate order from me!
Radical Antiquity: Free Love Zoroastrians, Farming Pirates, and Ancient Uprisings
www.plutobooks.com/product/radi...
Radical Antiquity: Free Love Zoroastrians, Farming Pirates, and Ancient Uprisings
www.plutobooks.com/product/radi...
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Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
New blog post: Prefiguration
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Prefiguration
Back in 2020 I was discussing the out-of-print novel Albion by Brenda Vale and musing on what I’d taken from it, and I wrote: The problem with modern democracy is that it has thoroughly convinced…
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October 5, 2025 at 8:48 AM
New blog post: Prefiguration
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Monthly Link Dump: September 2025:
Arts & culture, myth, folklore, landscape punk, hauntology, anarchism, utopianism, the gothic, neo-fabulism, and the Weird
www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artist...
Arts & culture, myth, folklore, landscape punk, hauntology, anarchism, utopianism, the gothic, neo-fabulism, and the Weird
www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artist...
Monthly Link Dump: September 2025
This is my monthly link dump, a regular monthly series containing a mix of links to interesting blog posts I’ve read from the past month covering arts & culture, myth, folklore, landscape punk, haunto...
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September 24, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Monthly Link Dump: September 2025:
Arts & culture, myth, folklore, landscape punk, hauntology, anarchism, utopianism, the gothic, neo-fabulism, and the Weird
www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artist...
Arts & culture, myth, folklore, landscape punk, hauntology, anarchism, utopianism, the gothic, neo-fabulism, and the Weird
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This meeting could have been a veiled threat, communicated solely by floral bouquets being sent back and forth, utilizing the Victorian language of flowers.
September 21, 2025 at 6:35 AM
This meeting could have been a veiled threat, communicated solely by floral bouquets being sent back and forth, utilizing the Victorian language of flowers.
New blog post: Month Notes, September 2025
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Month Notes, September 2025
I've just returned from a fortnight-long holiday in Greece—a long weekend in Athens, followed by ten days on the island of Naxos—and I’m feeling fully relaxed for the first time in as long as I can…
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September 20, 2025 at 11:43 AM
New blog post: Month Notes, September 2025
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"There's a witch hunt coming, born out of all the American fears,
There's a new purge coming,
an inquisition for all of us here,
Hold onto your sanity as best you can,
While some Hitler claims to speak for the Son of Man,
The Christian militia is marching now"
youtu.be/_7mfXyq3H-o?...
There's a new purge coming,
an inquisition for all of us here,
Hold onto your sanity as best you can,
While some Hitler claims to speak for the Son of Man,
The Christian militia is marching now"
youtu.be/_7mfXyq3H-o?...
Christian Militia
YouTube video by New Model Army - Topic
youtu.be
September 13, 2025 at 1:35 PM
"There's a witch hunt coming, born out of all the American fears,
There's a new purge coming,
an inquisition for all of us here,
Hold onto your sanity as best you can,
While some Hitler claims to speak for the Son of Man,
The Christian militia is marching now"
youtu.be/_7mfXyq3H-o?...
There's a new purge coming,
an inquisition for all of us here,
Hold onto your sanity as best you can,
While some Hitler claims to speak for the Son of Man,
The Christian militia is marching now"
youtu.be/_7mfXyq3H-o?...
New blog post: Using nostalgia for good
'they’re using nostalgia, not as a backwards-facing surrender to the status quo, but rather as a way to bypass capitalist realism’s trap and let people imagine "a future good life in post-industrial settings"'
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'they’re using nostalgia, not as a backwards-facing surrender to the status quo, but rather as a way to bypass capitalist realism’s trap and let people imagine "a future good life in post-industrial settings"'
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Using nostalgia for good
Back in July I wrote a post here called The futility of constructing a better past & the necessity of imagining a better future, the essence of which was a rant against (what seems to be) an increasin...
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September 4, 2025 at 6:28 PM
New blog post: Using nostalgia for good
'they’re using nostalgia, not as a backwards-facing surrender to the status quo, but rather as a way to bypass capitalist realism’s trap and let people imagine "a future good life in post-industrial settings"'
www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artist...
'they’re using nostalgia, not as a backwards-facing surrender to the status quo, but rather as a way to bypass capitalist realism’s trap and let people imagine "a future good life in post-industrial settings"'
www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artist...
Monthly Link Dump: August 2025:
Arts & culture, myth, folklore, landscape punk, hauntology, anarchism, utopianism, the gothic, neo-fabulism, and the Weird
www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artist...
Arts & culture, myth, folklore, landscape punk, hauntology, anarchism, utopianism, the gothic, neo-fabulism, and the Weird
www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artist...
Monthly Link Dump: August 2025
This is my monthly link dump, a regular monthly series containing a mix of links to interesting blog posts I’ve read from the past month covering arts & culture, myth, folklore, landscape punk, haunto...
www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk
August 28, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Monthly Link Dump: August 2025:
Arts & culture, myth, folklore, landscape punk, hauntology, anarchism, utopianism, the gothic, neo-fabulism, and the Weird
www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artist...
Arts & culture, myth, folklore, landscape punk, hauntology, anarchism, utopianism, the gothic, neo-fabulism, and the Weird
www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artist...
