The Green One
I have a new book out! I think it is my best yet, although sadly it may also be my last for a little while… […]
Two talks lined up in France
I have two talks on my latest book of essays, Nature, Essence and Anarchy, lined up for the month of May. Both are in France […]
Denying reality: a dangerous delusion
You can tell a lot about the metaphysical health of a society from the philosophical questions it asks itself. In the case of our own […]
L’ouragan d’un anticapitalisme authentique
Georges Lapierre, Être ouragans, L’insomniaque, 2015. C’est généralement en termes d’acquisition que l’on imagine la connaissance, une accumulation de nouvelles informations dans notre cerveau. Mais […]
Fleeing the Black Volcano of Industrialism
The monstrous Black Volcano which has loomed and leered menacingly over Happy City since it was founded has finally erupted. Vast rivers of lava are […]
Nature, Essence and Anarchy
My new book, Nature, Essence and Anarchy, is now out! You can read all about it on the Winter Oak website, but I just wanted […]
The hurricane of authentic anti-capitalism
We tend to think of knowledge in terms of acquisition – we see ourselves as adding new pieces of information to our existing mental stock. […]
The Sultan and the Sage
One day while he was sitting under an olive tree, contemplating the earth, the sky and the dimensions of the cosmos, there came to the […]
Fear of freedom and the lies of the state
The negative assumption behind the dominant attitude towards the freedom-to-run-your-own-life is that we are incapable of doing so. This belief has taken on many forms […]
The Dispossessed
This article is the first chapter, now available as a pdf from publishers Winter Oak, of The Stifled Soul of Humankind. The book is also […]