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 […]

“All you need is love”, sang the Beatles, in their classic “Yellow submarine”. But what is love? Is it the same as ‘sex’, or is sex an expression of love, its servant?   Nigel Pocock   What did the great prophet of 2000 years ago mean, when he said that […]

In her red dress, tight-lipped and gimlet-eyed, the speaker looked up from her notes, and declared that if you believed you were elephant, that was true.   Nigel Pocock   Well—not quite. If you believed, and self-defined, as whatever gender or non-gender you were, that was true for you. And […]