October 29th 2026 There Is a Way Through There Is a Way Through After weeks of rain, the sky is blue. Moods lift. Life seems shinier. It is a lot, this world, to take in. Too much violence, too much division, too much hate. I watched two young women spend at least twenty minutes capturing the perfect shot last week, and felt exhausted for them. I listened to the BBC interview four young Israelis about the election, and I felt despair. There is a rise in the global number of people with...

October 28th 2026 Necro-Economics Necro-economics I had never heard of the word necro-economics until today. It is a critical theoretical framework that places death, negation, and the systematic “letting die” of disposable or marginalised populations at the core of modern capitalist and political economies. (The cruelty of banality: Necro-economics and global letting die – Joshua Ayer.) Even reading the description makes me feel sick. Disposable people. An elevated set from disposable...

October 27th 2026 The precession of persecution The precession of persecution Precession is the affect of bodies in motion on other bodies in motion, producing a side effect (precession) at 90 degrees to the motion. Drop a stone into a pond of water, and the ripples occur at ninety degrees. Intractable persecution of one group of people has a precessional effect. Including an entrenched story of victimhood. For example, intractable persecution of women, and women can carry the energy of...