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"Everything that has been is eternal: the sea will wash it up again." - Friedrich Nietzsche. Imagine: you go online to book a trip to Galicia in the North of Spain via Madrid, and you realise it’s too expensive for all of you to get…

‘The ethics of care starts from the premise that as humans we are inherently relational, responsive beings and the human condition is one of connectedness or interdependence’ - Carol Gilligan ‘They say the darkest hour is just before the…

"If Rakim was rap's Woody Guthrie, Nas was the Dylan figure expanding the possibilities and complexity of the form, twisting old fables to match contemporary failings, faithful to tradition but unwilling to submit to orthodoxy." - Jeff…

What’s the point in always looking back, When all we see is more and more junk? - Manic Street Preachers. A recurring problem when reviewing a work of art or an exhibition, is the perceived strengths and weakness of what we have…

September, 1997 The Estuary, Enniscrone Beach, Co. Sligo. ‘We’ll stop and go back now.’ ‘Can we just wait here for a minute; there’s no rush?’ ‘Sure, of course.’ ‘I don’t want to go in, Mam. I can stick it out.’ ‘It’s just…

‘Laughing at the universe liberated my life. I escape its weight by laughing,’ - Georges Bataille I was going to title this column ‘we need to talk about memes’ in reference to Facebook pages I turn to most days to escape the gloom in the…

One of the strange things about the internet is that I now have friends I’ve never met. I even have friends on the internet that have seemed hesitant when I suggested we meet in proper: in the real world. Only when I mentioned I’d be where…

‘Are you a U2 fan?’ is a question I’ve been asked so many times I’ve lost count. The question reads differently depending who I’m with. I shirk when asked in a certain circle of friends, those brought up on a diet of post-punk and indie…

‘Reflective perception is a circuit, in which all the elements, including the perceived object itself, hold each other in a state of mutual tension as in an electric circuit, so that no disturbance starting from the object can stop on its…

Let’s begin by trying to suggest what an encounter is (and is not). An encounter can take the form of an unexpected liaison; a kind of spark to begin thinking. But an encounter, in the sense of what I mean here, is about an ‘affect,’ the…