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Conrad, Heart of Darkness #7: "an animated image of death carved out of old ivory"
Finally, on page 85 of 111, this week we finally stand face to face with Kurtz.
“It was as though an animated image of death carved out of old ivory had been shaking its hand with menace at a motionless crowd of men made of dark and glit...
Reflections on Civilizational Thinking and World History Book Club on Soviet Civilization
Over the last week, I sent you all a 4,600 mid-week essay on Foucault and Marxism, and a 6,200 word Long Read on Orders of Imperial Violence. And I also had a little incident of illness that disrupted the end of my week.
So this weekend, I...
Michel Foucault: Historians Who Made Me
Every month in 2026 as part of the World History Book Club, I am sharing reflections on an historian who made me. This month’s historian is: Michel Foucault.
His ‘complicated’1 relationship with history, madness and Marxism set the course...
Conrad, Heart of Darkness #6: "The man presented himself as a voice."
Slow Read of Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, Week Six
Finally, almost three-quarters of the way through Heart of Darkness, we meet Kurtz. Well, almost. We meet the enigmatic shade of Mr Kurtz through the narrator, Marlow’s memory of his...
World War Three Isn't Coming — The Armed Peace Never Ended
Monthly Long Read: Decolonisation, Wars and the Violent Orders of Empires
Every day on the internet a fashionable madman (they are mostly men) predicts, with a boring pedantic cry, that “World War Three” has begun or will do, any day now....
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