Archive - Some Private Diagonal

#40 Hypnagogic Tours: a conversation with Rangers' Joe Knight

Since I published that Ballard piece in UnHerd last year, people have started calling me a journalist.

Jan 22 •

December 2024

#39 The Tyranny of the Timeline

How Baudrillard predicted our all-consuming obsession with a banalised present.

Dec 4, 2024 •

November 2024

#38 Songs in the Key of V, part 4

Carthage, the Punic Wars and Malta

Nov 1, 2024 •

August 2024

#37 Songs in the Key of V, part 3

Part the first of a Malta deep dive

Aug 31, 2024 •

June 2024

#36 Songs in the Key of V, part 2

Paola and Pentecost.

Jun 13, 2024 •

March 2024

February 2024

#33 The New Age Generation, part 1

Mystical speculations in one of America's most celebrated sci-fi series.

Feb 18, 2024 •

October 2023

#32 Songs in the Key of V, part 1

An introduction to V. (without spoilers).

Oct 10, 2023 •

September 2023

August 2023

#29 From the Twitter archives, part 12C: Daily Modernist series, poets

Three major figures spanning over a century.

Aug 31, 2023 •

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