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Chaoskampf, Complexity and the Twisting Snake in William Blake's Illustrations to the Book of Job
Blake's Job has long been recognised as a hymn to an apocalyptic transformation of the self, but there are hints too of of acceptance of the role of…
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Andy Wilson
Retipped Arrows of Desire: Timothy Morton's Hell: In Search of a Christian Ecology (Review)
In their new book, Timothy Morton enlists Blake to help evolve a Christian ecology where the biosphere is the body of Christ, Hell is the physical…
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From Hyperobjects to Re-Animism: Titans at the End of the World
Living the reanimated life in a time of mass extinction. The advent of climate collapse creates an uncanny world in which Titans reawaken.
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No Place Called Home: Jason Whittaker on William Blake’s Jerusalem and Progressive Patriotism (Review)
The patriotic frenzy around Brexit and the death of Elizabeth Windsor offers an opportunity to reappraise Blake’s song Jerusalem and the nationalistic…
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Andy Wilson
Thoughts on Blake, Blade Runner and Animal Solidarity
I found aspects of Blade Runner that radically change our understanding of the story and bring it into line with Blake’s core vision.
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Andy Wilson
Blake in Beulah: John Higgs's 'William Blake vs the World' (Review)
In 2019 the writer John Higgs published a pamphlet, William Blake Now: Why He Matters More Than Ever, which argued for Blake’s continued relevance. When…
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Blake and the Mad Crew: Ranters and Historians
They say that the past is the slave of the present, and historians see in it mainly the projections of their private obsessions. There is no way around…
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Andy Wilson
Serge Arnoux's Mirror of Blake
Written to accompany the publication by Robert Campbell Henderson of plates by Serge Arnoux illustrating the Proverbs of Hell, from Blake’s The Marriage…
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Andy Wilson
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