Nothing is what it seems, everything is much less.
James Ellis
2023
Nothing is what it seems, everything is much less.
James Ellis
2023
I found myself browsing copies of After The Sun every time I visited my local Waterstones. Eventually, I gave in and bought a copy. I should have done so sooner.
After The Sun is the second book by Jonas Eika and the first to be translated into English. It contains five short stories (the final story being a sequel to one of its predocessors).
Each story reads like a vivid dream about cryptic relationships, hypnotic addictions, and psychic callings taking place in various backdrops. The streets of Copenhagen, the bleak corners of London, and the beaches of Mexico all become roads to twisted underworlds.
Dark and intimate, the writings of Jonas Eika occupy a strange and uncharted space between the works of J.G. Ballard and Bret Easton Ellis.
Eika is a writer still at the beginning of his literary career. He has already gained critical acclaim and won the Nordic Council Literature Prize. I’m interested to see where this promising writer will go from here.
To think we could have spared ourselves from living all that we have lived!
Emil Cioran
2023
Life inspires more dread than death — it is life which is the great unknown.
Emil Cioran
2024
Everyone can feel the nothingness, the void, just beneath the surface of everyday routines and securities.
John Zerzan
2024
To tell the truth, I couldn’t care less about the relativity of knowledge, simply because the world does not deserve to be known.
Emil Cioran
2024
Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer’s role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
J.G.Ballard
2023
The clock, not the steam-engine, is the key-machine of the modern industrial age.
Lewis Mumford
2023
Science and technology multiple around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.
J.G. Ballard
2023
Everywhere we remain unfree and chained to technology, whether we passionately affirm or deny it. Martin Heidegger
2023