The Second Kind of Loneliness

Where do we draw the line between solitude and loneliness? George R. R. Martin's The Second Kind of Loneliness meditates on the conflicting subjectivity that attempts to answer this question. Martin makes the distant vantage point intimate enough to be intimidating. https://youtu.be/GO5FwsblpT8 The story is a few diary entries from a lonely astronaut at the…

Of Other spaces: Utopias and Heterotopias

It is not the place we occupy which is important, but the direction in which we move.Oliver Wendell Holmes, Author. One of the most startling paradoxes of being human is the simultaneous quest for the "here-now" as well as "the other". We aspire to live this life to the fullest whilst dreaming of other lives…