Blake and the Mad Crew: The Ranters and the Historians
by Andy Wilson | Jan 31, 2021 | Essay, History / Politics, William Blake | 0
While A L Morton thought Blake may have read the work of the Ranter, Abiezer Coppe, modern historians say there is no evidence of Blake being familiar with Ranter texts. How much do Blake’s ideas overlap with The Ranters? I look at the Justification of the Mad Crew (1650) to compare.
Read MoreBlade Runner’s Fallen Angels
by Andy Wilson | Feb 10, 2021 | Essay, Film, Video, William Blake | 0
The film Blade Runner is hugely successful, but what does it mean? As the makers hint, the key is to watch it through the eyes of William Blake and his mythology of liberation.
Read MoreWilliam Blake as a Revolutionary Poet
by Andy Wilson | Jan 20, 2021 | History / Politics, William Blake | 0
Few could deny that William Blake supported the radical politics of his time, yet revolutionary ideas were not an adjunct to his visionary genius, but the living heart of it as a poet.
Read MoreAleks McHugh: The Golem Returns
by Aleks McHugh | Jan 17, 2021 | Essay, History / Politics | 0
In the wake of the attempted QAnon putsch, and in the run-up to the inauguration of Joe Biden, when Trump’s supporters are expected to take to the streets again, Aleks McHugh considers QAnon hysteria and social media generally as incarnations of Meyrink’s Golem, as portrayed in the 1920 film by Paul Wegener.
Read MoreSerge Arnoux’s Mirror of Blake
by Andy Wilson | Jan 4, 2021 | Essay, Image, Surrealism, William Blake | 0
An analysis of the recently discovered engravings by Serge Arnoux illustrating William Blake’s ‘Proverbs of Hell’, with a discussion of surrealism and Blake, and the impact of Moravianism on Blake’s idea of faith, sexuality, freedom and religion.
Read MoreSerge Arnoux: le sexaphysique du texte
by Admin | Jan 2, 2021 | Surrealism | 0
Images from Serge Arnoux’s le sexaphysique du texte, 1981.
Read MorePeachy
Sacred to Harpocrates were first fruits of vegetables, lentils, and, above all, the peach tree. His mother was Isis, of course, and we may note that in the Valentinian Pleroma, the primal Mother, the First Thought of the incomprehensible Bythos, is called Sig, ‘silence.’ As the Nag Hammadi text Eugnostos the Blessed relates: “Sophia, his consort, who was called ‘Silence,’ because in reflecting without a word she perfected her Greatness.”
Read MoreLink’s Strategy Guide for Ghosts
Hauntology is a dying art. Haha. I’m not familiar with the social theory of the hauntologist. I just like the atmosphere. I wonder if to study haunting, really study it, one has to be a ghost oneself. Study haunting first-hand. Like
seeing from the future. A ghost in the cobweb-filled corridors. Play on the old piano, rattle some armor. Know all the
secret passageways, where lost treasures are waiting
Bronowski on Blake and Industry
by Admin | Dec 7, 2020 | History / Politics | 0
Although Blake’s knowledge of industry was uncertain, his vision of it was not. It is an astonishing vision — Jacob Bronowski on Blake and Industry, and Blake on Jerusalem and Liberty.
Read MoreMilton’s L’Allegro on Blake’s Day
by Admin | Nov 28, 2020 | Image, Poetry, William Blake | 0
To celebrate Blake’s birthday, here is one of his illustrations for Milton’s L’Allegro, along with the poem itself, which seems suited to the mood fo the day.
Read MoreKen Fox: Autoeroticapocalypticum (Exract)
Here’s an extract from Ken Fox’s latest publication, Autoeroticapocalypticum. Ken’s...
Read MoreFruit Flies Like a Banana
by Andy Wilson | Nov 5, 2020 | Essay | 0
Excerpted from the book Faust: Stretch Out Time, an essay about how great music helps us escape Urizenic time, dead time. “Out of time, into space” (William Burroughs)
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