Archive - Disjecta Membra

Sundry vascilltions

A lost interview

Mar 8 •

July 2023

The inner is the outer

An excerpt from something new

Jul 20, 2023 •

June 2023

Jun 28, 2023 •

Personal halcyon

Jun 24, 2023 •

April 2023

On Martin Scorsese's 'Raging Bull' (1980): rage and toxic masculinity

Apr 19, 2023 •

Breaking the nets

On Seamus Deane – my original, extended version of an essay published in March 2023 by Jacobin.

Apr 18, 2023 •

A lingering light

A vindication of the liberal humanities (redux)

Apr 10, 2023 •

March 2023

On autism (redux)

A piece I wrote in late-2021, and which I would like to re-rewrite, but which still bears the weight of its composition.

Mar 30, 2023 •

Incertus as Queerness; Queerness as Incertus

On Seamus Heaney, Seán Hewitt, and the excavation of self

Mar 25, 2023 •

Strange Country: On Edmund Burke, Brian Dillon, and the Uncanniness of Grief

A substantially re-worked and extended essay originally written last year in response to my grandfather's passing.

Mar 22, 2023 •

Plunging the depts

Joyce, individualism, and the sense of community – a sketch

Mar 13, 2023 •

February 2023

Feb 14, 2023 •

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