Monthly Archives: December 2023

The future turned out to be…well what exactly? Having imagined everything from off-world mining to governments run by horses, it turns out that we’d rather spend our time watching ourselves. If the twentieth century space race strove to understand outer space, today’s ambitions are rather more inner-directed. The quest for individuality has descended into theContinue reading “From Cliché to the World”

[This is a longer version of a piece that was published in The Critic as “In a World Without God, What Does Suicide Mean?”] [All photographs mine] Nina Power & Pierre d’Alancaisez If life becomes unliveable, who would you turn to? A friend? A doctor? A priest? Today we no longer imagine ourselves God’s creation,Continue reading “Piece on Suicide”