A Room of One’s Own and Three Guineas
Virginia Woolf
This pair of essays from Virginia Woolf attends to women’s exclusion from educational institutions and economic independence on two fronts.
Thingness
On The Disappearance of Rituals
Psychology of craft
On The Soul’s Code & The Dream and the Underworld
Undersense
On The Dream and the Underworld & The Lost Steersman
The Empusium
Olga Tokarczuk
In 1913, a young Pole arrives at a health resort in the Silesian mountains, a place known to be free of consumption due to the still, damp air.
An imaginative activity
On The Dream and the Underworld & The Dispossessed
The Dream and the Underworld
James Hillman
“When we wrong the dream, we wrong the soul.”
We were angry
On Trauma and Recovery
Beyond credibility
On Trauma and Recovery
Trauma and Recovery
Judith Herman
Herman’s canonical work focuses on the necessity of understanding trauma within a social and political context.
Hurry-up-quick!
On The Mismeasure of Man & The Word for World Is Forest
Self-exploiting workers
On Capitalism and the Death Drive & The Burnout Society
Capitalism and the Death Drive
Byung-Chul Han
A person dies, but capital is forever.
Waking the Moon
Elizabeth Hand
An ancient secret order finds itself up against its most powerful foe: the Moon Goddess has returned.
To live
On We, the Heartbroken, The Chairs Are Where the People Go & Circe
We, the Heartbroken
Gargi Bhattacharyya
“Heartbreak is the heart of all revolutionary consciousness.”
Apocalypse
Lizzie Wade
An apocalypse is always both an ending and a beginning.
Everything
On Reclaiming Work, The Problem with Work & The Burnout Society
Exit strategy
On Reclaiming Work & Cubed
Reclaiming Work
André Gorz
“We must dare to prepare ourselves for the Exodus from ‘work-based society’: it no longer exists and will not return.”