Poster for Nosferatu (dir. Robert Eggers, 2024) It's been a while since we've discussed vampires here, and as the nights are now drawing in and the leaves are turning their autumnal colours, I wanted to go back to my roots and discuss my favourite subject. Back in January of this year, on another cold, dark,… Continue reading On Nosferatu
Category: sex
On Voices
Note: A version of this essay was presented in the form of a lecture entitled 'Voicing the Voiceless' at Conjuring Creativity conference on contemporary art and the esoteric, which took place in London on the 15th and 16th March 2025. “‘Misereatur vestry omnipotens deus, et, dismissis peccatis vestris…’The words issued light as a soap bubble… Continue reading On Voices
On Pervy Old Men: Part 2
"Finding oneself in the position of the beloved is so violent a discovery, even traumatic: being loved makes me feel directly the gap between what I am as a determinate being and the unfathomable X in me that causes love. Lacan's definition of love - 'love is giving something one doesn't have ...' has to… Continue reading On Pervy Old Men: Part 2
On ‘Antichrist’ and ‘MEN’
“The definition of women as demonic beings, and the atrocious and humiliating practices to which so many of them were subjected left indelible marks on the female psyche and in women’s sense of possibilities. … For the witch-hunt destroyed a whole world of female practices, collective relations, and systems of knowledge that had been the… Continue reading On ‘Antichrist’ and ‘MEN’
On Pervy Old Men: Part 1
“But the picture of the Madonna went with him. Continually, even as he sat in his small hard narrow room or knelt in the cool churches, it stood before his outraged soul with its sultry, dark-rimmed eyes, with a mysterious smile on its lips, naked and beautiful. And no prayer could exorcise it.” Thomas Mann,… Continue reading On Pervy Old Men: Part 1
Sertraline Dreams 