A series of letters and essays from Dougald Hine. Turning aside from the one big path that was meant to lead to the future, no longer in service to its promises, asking what else is worth doing with the time we have.
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Don’t Stop!
Detail from Peter Marlow, ‘Eclipse, Primrose Hill, 1999’ as used on the cover of John Berger’s The Shape of a Pocket.
Two weeks from now, we’ll be underway. The Storytellers, a series of five gatherings inspired by this pair of thinkers wh...
“The world has left the earth behind it”
In preparation for The Storytellers series – and the local gatherings here and elsewhere around John Berger’s centenary – I’m revisiting his work from various angles. Today, the books and essays which I’d recommend as a starting point for a...
A Whale of a Time
Photo by Oliver Tsappis on Unsplash
The ancestor of the whale was a creature like a wolf.
Brother of circles around this image, drawing from its deep-time transformation a long-haul hope for our own kind.
I have been underwater. At lea...
Ways of Reading: Five Routes into John Berger
Registration is now open for The Storytellers, a five-week series woven around the work of John Berger and Ivan Illich – both of whom would have turned 100 this autumn – starting on 4 and 5 November.
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To Honour the Beloved Dead
This post is a celebration of all those who joined us in marking Ivan Illich’s centenary last weekend, a story of the moment in my life when I first encountered Illich’s work and also that of John Berger, and an invitation to further conviv...
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