A hybrid―neither fully one, nor the other, but inheriting something from each parent. Yet persuading themselves, out of the necessity of coping, that they are one or the other.   Nigel Pocock   Under Caribbean slavery, the mixed-race people looked ‘upwards’ (ironically so-called), towards the white plantocracy. Today mixed race […]

Three men, three women, in an animated conversation. Three black, three white. The men listening intently, the women talking excitedly. Then: a joke by one of the men, about how the women loved to talk.   Nigel Pocock   Silence fell, as the voice of a Moral Finger of Higher […]

This dynamic and compelling photograph (with poorly executed and derivative copies by others made more recently) by Alexander Rodchencko (1924) of the Jewish-Russian actress, writer and political radical, Lilya Brik (1891-1978) is enigmatic. Who or what is she calling for? Perhaps she is trying to arouse the deaf, who do […]

Is the mind, and all that it beholds, an illusion, as some materialists hold? And thus, all the concepts of physics, such as time, a necessary illusion―chance, causality, and much more?   Nigel Pocock   This writer is an unashamed dualist, seeing the mind as an emergent reality, a product […]