PS on works of art – Iain’s Substack

PS on works of art – Iain’s Substack I forgot to mention in the post I have just finished that Simon McBurney’s Figures in Extinction, a dance trilogy choreographed by the Canadian dancer Crystal Pite, is enjoying rave reviews. His theatre and dance company is...
Metaphors can make you blind – Iain’s Substack

Metaphors can make you blind – Iain’s Substack

Metaphors can make you blind – Iain’s Substack Friends, I am new to Substack, so thank you for being patient while I work out how to do what I would like to do! And what is that? Just to add pieces from time to time. No schedule, and therefore no payment...
Bread cast on the waters – Iain’s Substack

Bread cast on the waters – Iain’s Substack

Bread cast on the waters – Iain’s Substack Bread cast on the waters by Iain McGilchristRead on Substack Boring stuff first: since a number of people have been kind enough to make a gift pledge, I have activated payments (I think!), so that others can, should the...
Resist the Machine Apocalypse by Iain McGilchrist – 2024

Resist the Machine Apocalypse by Iain McGilchrist – 2024

No two ways about it: We are making ourselves wretched. We are more affluent than ever, but riches—and power, the only point in having riches—do not make people happy. Ask a psychiatrist. Or take a look at the face of Vladimir Putin, who has, alas, the power of life and death over millions of people and is the owner of the most expensive toilet-paper dispenser in the world. No, affluent as we are, we are also more anxious, depressed, lonely, isolated, and lacking in purpose than ever. Why is this? I suggest it is because we no longer have the foggiest idea what human life is about. Indeed, there is a sense in which we no longer live in a world at all, but exist in a simulacrum of our own making.