Sammes Old Song
Back in the March of 2003, I bought a copy of Record Collector. I put it away with all my million other objects of musical passion and...
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Peter Critchley
Jan 21, 20208 min read
Shrug and Move on
I waste far too much time commenting on issues of secondary importance and engaging with people whose views, as irritating as they are,...
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Peter Critchley
Jan 1, 202062 min read
Dante's Sweet Symphony of Paradise
DANTE’S SWEET SYMPHONY OF PARADISE SWEET SYMPHONY STRUCTURE AND ORDER OF ALL MATERIALS I set out to write a piece on the place and role...
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Peter Critchley
Dec 26, 20193 min read
Kafka and Life's Journey
A little ‘healing story.’ I’ll summarize. A year or so before he died, the story goes, writer Franz Kafka encountered a little girl in...
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Peter Critchley
Dec 13, 201913 min read
Initial Reaction to UK Election results
I’ll put this here, to keep myself out of trouble on social media. It seems that the Labour Party has been trounced at the election, and...
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Peter Critchley
Dec 9, 20192 min read
Significant and Meticulous
My work on Marx is described as ‘significant’ and ‘meticulous’ by Barbara Harriss-White in The Socialist Register. It is, actually. And...
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Peter Critchley
Dec 8, 20194 min read
Dispensing my Mind
There comes a point when the world, its events and its people finally become so overwhelming that you just have to call it a day. I had a...
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Peter Critchley
Dec 5, 201924 min read
Climate Mobilization and Transformation
I need to respond to a criticism from some on the left in politics of others on the left who have had the nerve to criticize the Greta...
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Peter Critchley
Dec 1, 201933 min read
Classless and Hapless
Classless and Hapless I recently gathered my criticisms of Extinction Rebellion (XR) together and issued them on Academia, having...
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Peter Critchley
Nov 20, 201912 min read
Less a Forest than a Thicket of Greenwash
Less a Forest than a Thicket of Greenwash This article from Alex Morss makes many excellent points. I love trees. In fact, everyone seems...
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Peter Critchley
Nov 19, 20191 min read
Alternatives from out of the Heideggerian Corpus
'The dual cross-over purpose is the question of a going beyond a productionist metaphysics that dominates the industrial age, to a new...
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Peter Critchley
Nov 18, 201977 min read
Emerging from Under the Shadows of Modernity
Emerging from Under Modernity's Shadow Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the...
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Peter Critchley
Nov 15, 20197 min read
The Unity of Social Formation and Character Formation
The Unity of Social Formation and Character Formation Social formation and character formation proceed hand in hand as two aspects...
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Peter Critchley
Nov 4, 201932 min read
Superintelligence
Superintelligence The fundamental problem of politics is how to transform societies composed of self-interested individuals and sectional...
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Peter Critchley
Nov 3, 20199 min read
Class, Capital, Climate Change, and the Common Good
Class, Capital, Climate Change, and the Common Good I found this ‘Open Letter to Greta Thunberg’ on a site subtitled ‘A rational take on...
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Peter Critchley
Oct 31, 20199 min read
Special Brew - An Editing and Publishing Plan
EDITING AND PUBLISHING PLAN Work in Progress List already written works to be re-read, edited, and published; List and categorize “Being...
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Peter Critchley
Oct 25, 20191 min read
William Morris and Ecocriticism
I’ve just come across this book, “Victorian Writers and the Environment: Ecocritical Perspectives,” Edited By Laurence W. Mazzeno, Ronald...
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Peter Critchley
Oct 24, 20196 min read
Tell The Truth - The Capital System is the Problem
Extinction Rebellion must decide if it is anti-capitalist – and this greenwashing mining company shows us why by Amardeep Dhillon...
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Peter Critchley
Oct 21, 201914 min read
The Dangers of Corporate Climate Diversion, Conversion, and Perversion
Upon completing a number of articles on this theme, I discovered this commentary by Brian Davey, published on the Feasta website, Greta...
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Peter Critchley
Oct 21, 201950 min read
The Love that Seeketh Not its Own
The Love that Seeketh Not its Own What my eyes saw was nothing mortal When in your beautiful eyes entire peace I found . . . I say that...
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