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Life’s a Long Song: Night Draws in for the Traveller

It seems I may not have quite as many Substack posts in me as originally planned. This was always a possibility, what with my setting off 'in the evening', post-retirement. Where might we land?
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David Bowie and the Droog Superior: Violence and the Dame
Memories of the young Bowie are of his glamour, otherworldliness, and gay / bisexual advocacy. But that's not the whole story – another part being…
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Algorithms of Oppression: From Agrilogistics to AI
A friend's very special birthday party gave me a chance to air some of the ideas I have been discussing with friends in recent months.
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The Surrealist Cabbage and Roger Caillois's Stones
In which the wonder-inducing properties of cabbages, the Surealist kitchen, and Roger Caillois's study of the forms of stones are discussed.
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Michael Moynihan's Siege Mentality
Written back in 2010, before a lot of the fascist underground went overground with Trump, looking at the links between the post-industrial underground…
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Georges Bataille and the Surrealist Blake
Listen now | Bataille was a passionate advocate for William Blake among the Surrealists. But how did he connect Blake to his own philosophy of excess…
 • Andy Wilson and Stuart Kendall
St Basil and the Hedgehog of Regret
Thoughts on regret, animals and forms of geriatric emotional compression.
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Rum, Sodomy & the Lash: 50 Years Since Joining the Mob
I'm taking a temporary personal turn for this post. Bear with me! Back to Blake &c soon: 50 years ago this week, I set off from my home in Coventry…
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Blake, Castoriadis and the Radical Imagination
Listen now | The Traveller in the Evening talks to Castoriadis scholar and activist, Stephen Hastings-King, about Blake and Castoriadis's radical…
 • Andy Wilson and Stephen Hastings-King
1:43:44
Timothy Morton: Black Opals of Gurgling Negation
Listen now | After months of frantic Signalling, Timothy Morton and Andy get it together to spill the beans on Trump, the Great Chain of Being, Babylon…
 • Andy Wilson and Timothy Morton
Captain, my Captain! Thoughts on Blake's Death Day
As we approach the 200ᵗʰ anniversay of Blake's death (12th Aug 1827), whar can we conclude about his legacy and impact today? A starter pack...
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Evergreen Review: Dispatches from the Literary Underground
Pat Thomas has produced a compilation of work from the glory days of the US literary and counterculture journal, Evergreen Review. How did they manage…
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Awake! Mark Vernon's Imaginary in the Balance
Listen Now: A discussion with Mark Vernon about his book on William Blake and the imagination fuelled an agitated exchange about the relevance of…
 • Andy Wilson and Mark Vernon

William Blake

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Life’s a Long Song: Night Draws in for the Traveller
Thro evening shades I haste away To close the Labours of my Day William Blake, The Traveller Hasteth in the Evening (1793) This post concerns an…
 • Andy Wilson
Algorithms of Oppression: From Agrilogistics to AI
A friend's very special birthday party gave me a chance to air some of the ideas I have been discussing with friends in recent months.
 • Andy Wilson
1:27:59
Georges Bataille and the Surrealist Blake
Listen now | Bataille was a passionate advocate for William Blake among the Surrealists. But how did he connect Blake to his own philosophy of excess…
 • Andy Wilson and Stuart Kendall
1:08:31
Blake, Castoriadis and the Radical Imagination
Listen now | The Traveller in the Evening talks to Castoriadis scholar and activist, Stephen Hastings-King, about Blake and Castoriadis's radical…
 • Andy Wilson and Stephen Hastings-King
1:14:12
Awake! Mark Vernon's Imaginary in the Balance
Listen Now: A discussion with Mark Vernon about his book on William Blake and the imagination fuelled an agitated exchange about the relevance of…
 • Andy Wilson and Mark Vernon
William Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love: An Immersion
Philip Hoare's latest book sees Blake inspire an army of admirers from Wilde and Joyce through to David Bowie. Minor characters like W. G. Robertson and…
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Neither Muggletonian nor Moravian but Blakean: A Critique of Keri Davies
Keri Davies is a Blake scholar, determined to dismiss Blake's radical, dissenting posture, turning him instead into a small businessman of orthodox…
 • Brian Collier
Dance to Your Nobodaddy: Tríd an bpoll gan bun at Sadler's Wells
Folk musician Sam Amidon and Michael Keegan-Dolan's Teaċ Daṁsa's new piece, inspired by Blake's divine dad-gone-bad, Nobodaddy, tells stories of…
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Retipped Arrows of Desire (Vala Redux)
My review of Tim Morton's Hell: In Search of a Christian Ecology, from the recently published Vala #5, Journal of The Blake Society
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Vala #5: Blake and God
The latest issue of the Blake Society Journal, Vala, focuses on Blake's relationship to God and religion general. Druids get involved. Download this and…
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Ginsberg's Blake Inscriptions for Miles: Where are the Revolutionary Freaks When You Need Them?
At an event earlier this year marking Ginsberg's 1960'2 visits to London, I noticed the inscriptions, dedications and doodles Ginsberg had left in Barry…
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Chaoskampf, Complexity and the Twisting Snake in William Blake's Illustrations to the Book of Job
Blake's Job has long been recognised as a hymn to an apocalyptic transformation of the self, but there are hints too of of acceptance of the role of…
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surrealist covens
surrealist covens
surrealist covens
Leaves in the Wind
Leaves in the Wind
David Bentley Hart
Ted’s Substack
Ted’s Substack
Jo Quin
The Intrinsic Perspective
The Intrinsic Perspective
Erik Hoel
Live Theology!
Live Theology!
Treena Balds
Blake Resources
Bring Me My Bow of Burning Gold
Tim Morton's writings are straight out of Blake
The Complete Poetry and Prose of WIlliam Blake
David Erdman's collection of Blake's work.
The Blake Archive
A superb resource collecting Blake's texts and images
Hell's Printing Press
The Blog of the Blake Archive and Blake Quarterly
The Blake Society
Blake-related events and information
Blake: An Illustrated Quaterly
Blake Journal
Global Blake
An international network of scholars working on William Blake
Zoamorphosis
The Reception of William Blake
General
Allen Ginsberg Project
A home to Ginsbergians, Allenophiles and Ginsbergers
Bureau of Lost Culture
Broadcasting Rare Countercultural Stories and Oral Testimonies
UbuWeb
Web of Ubu
Thomas Merton Centre
Home of the Thomas Merton Society
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