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Dreams and nightmares

The word ‘energy’ comes from the ancient Greek noun ‘ergon’, meaning work, and in English ‘work’ can be a noun or a verb; hence the words energy and energise.   Sean Sheehan   No surprise, then, to find more than one meaning in the title of Michael Marder’s book, “Energy […]

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Fluid sexuality and sexual identity

“Nothing is what it seems”. So goes the Zen Buddhist saying. Karl Marx echoed it with his famous statement: “Just as our opinion of an individual is not based on what he thinks of himself, so can we not judge such a period of transformation by its own consciousness; on […]