Archive - Expressive Egg

An introduction to the instinct that won’t go away, and why an anarchist world is not inhuman, violent, chaotic, parochial, unrealistic, uncivilised or…

Jan 15

A guide to the best that outsider literature has to offer (now updated). First part of three; Adorno to Hašek

Jan 9

Niceness: the mask of fear, the consolation of mediocrity, the betrayal of morality, the menace of modernity, the death of love.

Mar 18

A guide to the best that outsider literature has to offer (now updated). Second part of three; Hesse to Miller

Mar 12

Game Over. Anthropogenic global warming is almost certainly not a conspiracy, but whether it is or not makes no difference at all.

Dec 13, 2022

Can consciousness be uploaded? Is it possible to make moral choices in a virtual reality? Can artificial intelligence be sentient? Are you living in a…

Mar 14

Why our cultural world is a wasteland | An excerpt from 33 Myths of the System.

Jan 20

Invitation to the dance macabre: admit one | A message from your oldest and closest friend

Feb 26

The spectacle and the spectator have become one, which makes it meaningless to talk of, or freedom from, either.

Jan 9

A few observational biscuits | A conversational diary for paid subscribers. This week; shooting dogs, my UFO abduction story and being 99% everything…

Mar 3

The perfect system is comprised entirely of unconscious people performing meaningless tasks | An extract from 33 Myths of the System.

Feb 12

A brief enquiry into the life and death of ritual | For paying subscribers.

Jan 21

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