‘I’m not a person who puts up with rudeness’: unpicking fantasy and reality with an Italian football ultra

I’ve met many hardcore, violent fans, but the hostage-negotiating, cocaine-smuggling, Marxist-Leninist Alessandro Casolari still stood out

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12. A Man Without Qualities.

The blossom was outrageous, a flushed extension of Mirabelle and cherry plums; heavy showers under glowering shifts of fast moving cloud.

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11. Things Fall Apart

They sat at the table for a while, Veronika pulling faces at herself in her reflection in one of the windows, examining her chin.

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The Uncertainty-Certainty Principle.

(Uncertainty as Constitutive Geometry).

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First-Order and Second-Order Cognition.

Geometries of Cognitive Transformation.

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The Life of Objects in the Past.

She had been cooking with butter, its smell resisting all attempts to apprehend it, journeying into the corners of the room and causing his thoughts to jar and wander.

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Field Articulation Theory.

A Global‑First, Field‑Relational Account of Consciousness.

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A Higher Order.

Abstract Cognition as a Technology of Access.

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Always, already.

On Grace, the Sublime and Transcendence.

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On Not Knowing.

The Misdiagnosis of Uncertainty.

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The Erotics of Anxiety

On the Necessity of Anxiety and Why It Sits at the Threshold of Most Good Things (Featuring Freud! Lacan! Kierkegaard! Anaïs Nin!)

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Distributed Identity in Late Modernity: A Reading of DeLillo.

“All plots tend to move deathward.”

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Field Ontology and The Rings of Saturn

“We, the survivors, see everything from above, see everything at once, and still we do not know how it was.”

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Seamus Perry · Pluralism and the Modern Poet

‘Art arises,’ Auden writes, ‘out of our desire for both beauty and truth and our knowledge that they are not...

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Scotland as Screen: Vexed Projections in I Know Where I’m Going! – The International Journal of Scottish Theatre and Screen

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Distributed Identity in Late Modernity: A Reading of DeLillo.

“All plots tend to move deathward.”

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22. The Big Ships

She appeared in his kitchen as something unequivocal, equal to the world around her and indifferent to its movements.

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21. A Flat Earth

He lay on his back on the edge of the woods, at the edge of his world waiting for the stars to stop still for long enough, to place himself as close as possible to a centre of sorts so that the univer...

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A Willing Machine

The slate grey container had sat mute since he had installed, fitted and dressed it.

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19. A Prosthetic

He wore a heavy blue waxed cotton jacket with five dull brass buttons.

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Christopher E Stacey | Substack

Writer, essayist. Psychologist.

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The Invention of Reading

Requiring a position in his resistance, in his distribution; he was meticulous, a microscopy seen in his microbiology, in what he gave his attention to; a ball of cells that forming early in developme...

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A Museum of Western Approaches

She was intricately embroidered, her tattoos an account of ancient maritime histories and haunted isolations of an institutionalised life; large bitumen crosses on the heavily freckled concave of her ...

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English Electric

St Anne’s Limehouse, a superposition collapsed into rigidity.

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Sebald, DeLillo, Ballard, Bachelard and Baudrillard.

“When the image is new, the world is new.”

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The Beautiful Loop.

"These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased"

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