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Monthly Archives: April 2015
Celebrating the Radical Imagination – guest post by Helen Moore
‘Just imagine the world without … [insert brand]!’ Today, our capacity to imagine is frequently coopted, with advertising endlessly fuelling our sense of ourselves as consumers, rather than citizens of this Earth community. Industrial growth society systematically reinforces ‘monocultures of … Continue reading
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Tagged Alasdair Paterson, anti-austerity, Brian Swimme, capitalism, David Graeber, Deep Time, dystopia, ecological crisis, ecopoetics, Ecozoa, Ecozoic, Einstein, Hedge Fund, Helen Moore, imagination, Jerusalem, John Kinsella, Los, organic society, poetry, science fiction, Stephen Hawking, The Democracy Project, The Four Zoas, The Great Work, Thomas Berry, Transition, Universe Story, Urizen, William Blake
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Deep Time and Ecozoa Launch in Bath on 21 May
Helen Moore and I will be at Waterstones Bath on Thursday 21 May to celebrate the publication of our new books: Helen’s acclaimed poetry collection, ECOZOA, and my novel of prehistory, Deep Time. There will be introductions by Richard Kerridge, … Continue reading
Future Primitive
A particular kind of science fiction converges with green aspirations in ‘future primitive’ visions of a future society less dominated by technology. There are positive and negative versions of this kind of future – and positive and negative pathways to … Continue reading
Loincloths and Fur Bikinis
Deep Time is a quite erotic novel, not just in the obvious sense – though there is some of that – but also in a broader sense, loosely from Plato, of ‘eros’ as an impulse towards beauty and ultimately towards … Continue reading
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Tagged Ao the Last Neanderthal, connectedness, D.H. Lawrence, Deep Time, eros, erotic, fur bikini, Jean Auel, Lady Chatterley's Lover, nudity, One Million Years BC, Plato, power dynamics, prehistoric, prehistoric fantasy, prehistoric romance, Quest for Fire, sex, Sons and Lovers, The Mammoth Hunters, The Valley of Horses, When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth
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The Origin of ‘Deep Time’
I first came across the phrase ‘deep time’ in a pair of books I copy-edited for the Geological Society in 1998. I realised at once that Deep Time had to be the title of the novel I’d recently started writing. … Continue reading
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Tagged age of the earth, Charles Lyell, Deep Time, earth, ecological crisis, ecosystem, geology, James Hutton, John McPhee, novel, strata
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