Iggy showed the error of human existence, the breathless nearness of death, and the lure of fun and action. He was like a much better-looking version of Schopenhauer.

J.G. Ballard’s self-declared ‘Immodest Proposal’ for a global war-­alliance to exact the destruction of America demonstrates the provocatory zeal of his last fiction plans, as well as their enduring prescience.

it seemed like we’d just been in some horrible dream

Strangeness is everywhere, but strangers are only where we define them.

Where do you go when you disappear?

A stupid tweet by a nobody, meant as a parody, somehow goes viral and the internet offers up death threats.

“He always read Priam instead of ‘prime’.”

“The thing about punk is that you’re allowed to talk about anything. Kids can talk about whatever they want. There’s nobody saying, ‘No, you can’t do that, it’s not punk.’”

With Bely, a continuum is continuously produced between visceral organic states, political states of society and meteorological states of the world.

Philosophy is found wanting. It is considered anachronistic, some say dead. The tradition is in ruins.