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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…
 • 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
Georges Bataille and the Surrealist Blake
Among the Surrealists, Bataille was a passionate advocate for William Blake. But how did he connect Blake to his own philosophy of excess? Bataille…
 • Andy Wilson and Stuart Kendall
1:27:59
Blake, Castoriadis and the Radical Imagination
The Traveller in the Evening talks to Castoriadis scholar and activist, Stephen Hastings-King, about Blake and Castoriadis's radical concept of the…
 • Andy Wilson and Stephen Hastings-King
1:08:31
Awake! Mark Vernon's Imaginary in the Balance
A discussion with Mark Vernon about his book on William Blake and the imagination fuelled an agitated exchange about the relevance of politics and the…
 • Andy Wilson and Mark Vernon
1:14:12
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…
 • Andy Wilson
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…
 • Andy Wilson
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. You can download…
 • Andy Wilson
Vala #5: Blake and God
The latest issue of the Blake Society Journal, Vala, focusses on Blake's relationship to God and religion general. Druids get involved. Download this…
 • Andy Wilson
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's visits to London, I noticed the inscriptions, dedications and doodles he left in Barry Miles's…
 • Andy Wilson
Chaoskampf, Complexity and the Twisting Snake in William Blake's Illustrations to the Book of Job
Blake's Job is widely seen as illustrating an apocalyptic transformation of the self, but there are hints too of an acceptance of the role of chaos not…
 • Andy Wilson
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