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Images from the current Ithell Colquhoun exhibition at Tate St Ives:
(i) Kabbalistic Tree of Life (ii) Untitled (intersex figure) (iii) La cathédrale engloutie (detail) (iv) The Sunset Birth
(i) Kabbalistic Tree of Life (ii) Untitled (intersex figure) (iii) La cathédrale engloutie (detail) (iv) The Sunset Birth
T. W. Adorno likened his encounter with Ernst Bloch's first major work, The Spirit of Utopia (Geist der Utopie), to his memory of reading a grimoire as a child. Reading this piece offers other implications to Adorno's concept of mediation: for every mediation a medium!
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November 13, 2025 at 5:20 PM
T. W. Adorno likened his encounter with Ernst Bloch's first major work, The Spirit of Utopia (Geist der Utopie), to his memory of reading a grimoire as a child. Reading this piece offers other implications to Adorno's concept of mediation: for every mediation a medium!
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To be the midpoint of triple Nature, to move all things,
You attach the soul and diffuse it through adapted members;
and Soul, cut in two, has globed its motion in two orbs,
goes forth to return to itself, turns about the depth
of mind, and curves the heavens to a like pattern - Boethius
You attach the soul and diffuse it through adapted members;
and Soul, cut in two, has globed its motion in two orbs,
goes forth to return to itself, turns about the depth
of mind, and curves the heavens to a like pattern - Boethius
November 8, 2025 at 8:06 PM
To be the midpoint of triple Nature, to move all things,
You attach the soul and diffuse it through adapted members;
and Soul, cut in two, has globed its motion in two orbs,
goes forth to return to itself, turns about the depth
of mind, and curves the heavens to a like pattern - Boethius
You attach the soul and diffuse it through adapted members;
and Soul, cut in two, has globed its motion in two orbs,
goes forth to return to itself, turns about the depth
of mind, and curves the heavens to a like pattern - Boethius
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…and another photo of this stone with the rest of the stone row (towards sunset this evening) #StandingStoneSunday
September 28, 2025 at 10:07 PM
…and another photo of this stone with the rest of the stone row (towards sunset this evening) #StandingStoneSunday
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Tallest stone of the Waen Oer stone row looking out over Cardigan Bay to the distant mountains of the Lleyn Peninsula. An odd-shaped stone with odd cigar-shaped natural markings for #StandingStoneSunday
September 28, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Tallest stone of the Waen Oer stone row looking out over Cardigan Bay to the distant mountains of the Lleyn Peninsula. An odd-shaped stone with odd cigar-shaped natural markings for #StandingStoneSunday
"Maass! But the majik wavus has elfun anon meshes.
And Simba the Slayer of his Oga is slewd" (FW 203).
‘maji’, ‘wavu’, ‘elfu’, and ‘simba’ are all Kiswahili words, meaning, respectively, water, net, a thousand, and lion/warrior - elfun anon becomes 1001
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And Simba the Slayer of his Oga is slewd" (FW 203).
‘maji’, ‘wavu’, ‘elfu’, and ‘simba’ are all Kiswahili words, meaning, respectively, water, net, a thousand, and lion/warrior - elfun anon becomes 1001
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Finnegans Wake/Nakshi Kantha
Credit: Niaz Zaman, The Art of Kantha Embroidery (1995), 93. 1. For all his openness to the unpredictable, James Joyce could never have imagined that the word ‘googling’, one of many he…
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September 28, 2025 at 2:04 PM
"Maass! But the majik wavus has elfun anon meshes.
And Simba the Slayer of his Oga is slewd" (FW 203).
‘maji’, ‘wavu’, ‘elfu’, and ‘simba’ are all Kiswahili words, meaning, respectively, water, net, a thousand, and lion/warrior - elfun anon becomes 1001
artefactsofwriting.com/2020/10/10/f...
And Simba the Slayer of his Oga is slewd" (FW 203).
‘maji’, ‘wavu’, ‘elfu’, and ‘simba’ are all Kiswahili words, meaning, respectively, water, net, a thousand, and lion/warrior - elfun anon becomes 1001
artefactsofwriting.com/2020/10/10/f...
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For #StandingStoneSunday, I was going to post one of Clarissa Miles' photos from Stonehenge in 1901. She was the photographer during architect Detmar Blow's operation to straighten Stone 56, and William Gowland's excavations, but instead, here's a passing shepherd and his sheep on the (1/2)
September 28, 2025 at 9:55 AM
For #StandingStoneSunday, I was going to post one of Clarissa Miles' photos from Stonehenge in 1901. She was the photographer during architect Detmar Blow's operation to straighten Stone 56, and William Gowland's excavations, but instead, here's a passing shepherd and his sheep on the (1/2)
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'For all its apparent celebration, the narrative of ‘Cloudbusting’ recounts the repression of utopianism: #WilhelmReich would die in prison within a year of his arrest, his machines destroyed and writings burned by the US government'
#KateBush’s Hounds Of Love, 40 Years On
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#KateBush’s Hounds Of Love, 40 Years On
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September 17, 2025 at 5:15 PM
'For all its apparent celebration, the narrative of ‘Cloudbusting’ recounts the repression of utopianism: #WilhelmReich would die in prison within a year of his arrest, his machines destroyed and writings burned by the US government'
#KateBush’s Hounds Of Love, 40 Years On
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#KateBush’s Hounds Of Love, 40 Years On
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#HillfortsWednesday
Castell Henllys is an archaeological site near Nevern in north Pembrokeshire, #Wales. The Iron Age hillfort has been the subject of an ongoing excavation since the start of the 21st century, accompanied by an exercise in reconstruction
#Archaeology #History
Castell Henllys is an archaeological site near Nevern in north Pembrokeshire, #Wales. The Iron Age hillfort has been the subject of an ongoing excavation since the start of the 21st century, accompanied by an exercise in reconstruction
#Archaeology #History
September 17, 2025 at 6:42 AM
#HillfortsWednesday
Castell Henllys is an archaeological site near Nevern in north Pembrokeshire, #Wales. The Iron Age hillfort has been the subject of an ongoing excavation since the start of the 21st century, accompanied by an exercise in reconstruction
#Archaeology #History
Castell Henllys is an archaeological site near Nevern in north Pembrokeshire, #Wales. The Iron Age hillfort has been the subject of an ongoing excavation since the start of the 21st century, accompanied by an exercise in reconstruction
#Archaeology #History
Taking heart from this, they carried on through the snow until they reached a farm near Stow where a farmer allowed them to lodge for Christmas charity. ‘The Christmas bells were ringing and the snow stopped, and the little white Kit-Cat was gone’
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Idbury Hill and the Quest for the Miraculous
Very few people would fail to feel, on hearing the rustling of leaves, that the leaves are speaking to us, that there is something like a language of nature, that we are the only ones who cannot un…
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September 13, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Taking heart from this, they carried on through the snow until they reached a farm near Stow where a farmer allowed them to lodge for Christmas charity. ‘The Christmas bells were ringing and the snow stopped, and the little white Kit-Cat was gone’
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Spotted this first edition today
September 8, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Spotted this first edition today
Nice little pebble feature at work
August 30, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Nice little pebble feature at work
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These are the two menhirs on the Ile-de-Sein (Finistère) known as Les Causeurs (The Gossipers) possibly because they are set close together and one leans slightly towards the other. This card by Boelle in Brest pre-1904.
August 28, 2025 at 6:16 AM
These are the two menhirs on the Ile-de-Sein (Finistère) known as Les Causeurs (The Gossipers) possibly because they are set close together and one leans slightly towards the other. This card by Boelle in Brest pre-1904.
My newt, in comparison
August 27, 2025 at 10:12 PM
My newt, in comparison
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"We didn't come here to listen to a load of stuff about famine and colonialism and genocide and being forced into exile, we came to hear some Irish folk songs!"
Our pals The Mary Wallopers have just been pulled off stage and the PA shut down at VictoriousFest in Portsmouth for taking out a 🇵🇸 flag and saying Free Palestine
Speak up against genocide in England and you're treated like a criminal
Up the Mary Wallopers 💚🤍🧡
Free Palestine!
Free the 6 counties!
Speak up against genocide in England and you're treated like a criminal
Up the Mary Wallopers 💚🤍🧡
Free Palestine!
Free the 6 counties!
August 22, 2025 at 6:16 PM
"We didn't come here to listen to a load of stuff about famine and colonialism and genocide and being forced into exile, we came to hear some Irish folk songs!"
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A cow’s jawbone placed beside Stonehenge’s south entrance and dated to the monument’s very beginning in 2995 to 2900 BCE. Evidence for the longevity of drove roads from Wales, linked to Stonehenge (and on to London). Talked about this stuff for years
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A Milky Way Trapped in Stone
In this article I explored the cosmological dimensions of something as mundane as the herding of animals, finding in the paths of migratory and driven animals on earth the course of the stars and p…
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August 20, 2025 at 11:03 PM
A cow’s jawbone placed beside Stonehenge’s south entrance and dated to the monument’s very beginning in 2995 to 2900 BCE. Evidence for the longevity of drove roads from Wales, linked to Stonehenge (and on to London). Talked about this stuff for years
thegrammarofmatter.wordpress.com/2013/08/17/a...
thegrammarofmatter.wordpress.com/2013/08/17/a...
A cow’s jawbone placed beside Stonehenge’s south entrance and dated to the monument’s very beginning in 2995 to 2900 BCE. Evidence for the longevity of drove roads from Wales, linked to Stonehenge (and on to London). Talked about this stuff for years
thegrammarofmatter.wordpress.com/2013/08/17/a...
thegrammarofmatter.wordpress.com/2013/08/17/a...
A Milky Way Trapped in Stone
In this article I explored the cosmological dimensions of something as mundane as the herding of animals, finding in the paths of migratory and driven animals on earth the course of the stars and p…
thegrammarofmatter.wordpress.com
August 20, 2025 at 11:03 PM
A cow’s jawbone placed beside Stonehenge’s south entrance and dated to the monument’s very beginning in 2995 to 2900 BCE. Evidence for the longevity of drove roads from Wales, linked to Stonehenge (and on to London). Talked about this stuff for years
thegrammarofmatter.wordpress.com/2013/08/17/a...
thegrammarofmatter.wordpress.com/2013/08/17/a...
They needed a starting motor for the choir practice
August 19, 2025 at 8:11 PM
They needed a starting motor for the choir practice
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Made a pilgrimage today to Twyford Down - the chalk downland torn asunder for a road scheme in the 1990s. Looking down on the scar left by the M3 cutting hurts. The (vandalised) memorial stone recalls the Tory ministers who ravaged this land; a defiant sticker on the fence reads ‘Twyford Rising’
August 14, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Made a pilgrimage today to Twyford Down - the chalk downland torn asunder for a road scheme in the 1990s. Looking down on the scar left by the M3 cutting hurts. The (vandalised) memorial stone recalls the Tory ministers who ravaged this land; a defiant sticker on the fence reads ‘Twyford Rising’
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The juxtaposition of book and balls was done in January 2018... Only today have I realised what might have inspired this - Emblem 141 (Eternitas) from Henry Peacham's Minerva Britanna (1612), featuring a very Melusinian-looking form holding two orbs, and she has 17 stars on her!
August 6, 2025 at 4:57 PM
The juxtaposition of book and balls was done in January 2018... Only today have I realised what might have inspired this - Emblem 141 (Eternitas) from Henry Peacham's Minerva Britanna (1612), featuring a very Melusinian-looking form holding two orbs, and she has 17 stars on her!
Troll-faced flint on Bronze Age barrow
August 3, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Troll-faced flint on Bronze Age barrow
Happy to have it confirmed independently by two archaeologists today that this is indeed a flint core. One of them suggested it could be a sign of settlement. As there's a spring 100 ft from our door that seems quite plausible. Mesolithic/Neolithic or later. Given details for reporting it to the PAS
Lived here for 30 years but only noticed this stone on the flower bed yesterday. Signs of repeated working? A lithic core?
#FlintKnapping #WorkedFlint #lithics #Palaeolithic #Mesolithic #Neolithic #Archaeology
#FlintKnapping #WorkedFlint #lithics #Palaeolithic #Mesolithic #Neolithic #Archaeology
August 2, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Happy to have it confirmed independently by two archaeologists today that this is indeed a flint core. One of them suggested it could be a sign of settlement. As there's a spring 100 ft from our door that seems quite plausible. Mesolithic/Neolithic or later. Given details for reporting it to the PAS
Didn't expect to find this in the Fiction section of a National Trust bookshop 🧐
August 2, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Didn't expect to find this in the Fiction section of a National Trust bookshop 🧐
Never seen clouds cast shadows on a blue sky before
July 31, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Never seen clouds cast shadows on a blue sky before