Maladjusted rants on philosophy and politics, literature and love; on good prose, bad thinking. The "notorious", D.I.V. is a long, shrill objection to everything prurient and pretentious about culture and society in the third millenium including itself.
Mal (the unsuccessful founder of misanthropic bloggers society) is enamoured with Plato, Swift, Thomas Mann, Thomas Pynchon, Hegel, Habermas, Xenophon, and Augustine.
Recent Posts[edited 18/11/09]Okay. This is my favourite passage from John Milbank's "Being Reconciled":"...For while libertarianism insists that the future lies with the isolated 'reflective' individual, managing and manipulating a plethora of life-choices, cha...
Dear all,Today, I have something very exciting to announce. In my last post, I mentioned that Helen Webberley (of "Art, and architecture mainly") and I would both be writing guest posts for each other's blogs. I'd like to take the opportunity to men...
Not sure whom this will interest exactly, but I've been thinking recently that it might be time to dispense with my secret superhero identity. Although, I think that I've now made up my mind on this issue, it's still a great wrench for me to give up...
I’ve never been very serious about the idea of running a political blog. I mean I've thought about it, but the main reason, I've never tried is that I just...wouldn't be very good at it. This is because, when it comes down to it, I’m just not th...
(This the edit that "we had to have")Dearly Beloved,I've been thinking about my last 8 months of blogging, going through in my head what Homer Simpson once so aptly described as the "dizzying heights, the terrifying lows, the CREAMY middles." And, ...
No time to post anything at the moment, as I'm in the midst of a flurry of activity which (like most flurries) doesn't seem to be getting me anywhere or achieving much: kind of like I'm the 5th clown from the left in my own personal circus. In fact,...
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stillthinkingMaladjusted beautifully written blog only has a handful of entries, but each one is pleasure to read. Not for the intellectually faint of heart, each entry is challenging and written at a level far higher than normal blogs.
Lolitamal is like the posh Englishman you always wanted to fuck but would be too afraid to date because you know he'd just fly away with his umbrella in the middle of the night.
read his blog if you can stand the manliness :D
Pascal HI JUST LOVE MALAD!
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About George Steiner, WG Sebald, Seamus Heaney, Nick Tosches, William Faulkner,…
Poems from The Far Queue : Read 'em and weep.
(Mis)readings is a blog featuring counterobservations on events and texts from t…
A truly outstanding blog in terms of quality of writing.
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