By Richard Mather [Article originally published on academia.edu for Holocaust Memorial Day / Yom HaShoah on 27th January 2024. Image:...

Not the growing stem or the leaf blowing in the wind; not the opening bud or the emerging radicle; not the fourfold root yearning for water.

By Richard Mather I am only fully actual when determined in all of my parts, when I am the sum of all predicates that can be attributed...

By Richard Mather If water is the primal origin of all things (as the ancient Greek sage Thales of Miletus supposed), then considering...

What fact makes a principle true? Quid Facti. That is the question.

By Richard Mather I am nothing and you are nothing. but the relation between us isn’t nothing. Infinitesimally small differences...

By Richard Mather The beginning is at nought: an arid place of aerated concrete. A tower goes to ruin, down, falling down, it falls, it...

By Richard Mather Said the professor — I am in a vortex, a maelstrom, below the eye’s surface, standing on the abyssal plain, the...

By Richard Mather Strange to think I am the universe and everything in it too. I call out. No voice returns other than my echo. So...

By Richard Mather Our DNA a polymer implant from our worldly creator, Blake’s Urizen. Backbone sidechain nitrogen phosphate And a plastic...

By Richard Mather Potato eaters – five peasant women, clothed in rags, seated round a square table in a brown room. The scene is set....

By Richard Mather Tool-use If the hammer is a symbol Of the power of the hand, The hand is the product Of the need for a hammer. Horizon...

By Richard Mather There is no place for me to exist, Always on the edge. Like you I am an extensionless point At the limit of a world I...

By Richard Mather What is the matter? It is a base question. It is the not-one, without limit, infinite. From it finite things are...

By Richard Mather “Her husband is a grey shadow flat and cringing, cowering like a frightened schoolboy beneath the blackboard.” “Well,...

By Richard Mather OVERVIEW: ● The pantheist ontology of Baruch Spinoza (b.1632 – d.1677) is an attempt to deny the accountability of...

By Richard Mather Lord Ardenforde opens a jewellery box to reveal a platinum brooch, rhodium watch, immortal diamond choker; and on the...

By Richard Mather We see the visible world as somehow inevitable, with all its ratios of movement & rest, its manifold shapes & ecstatic...

"The temple curtain made of some heavy purple fabric, with its curious pleats ..."

By Richard Mather What is amazing is not that my corpse was contracted and compressed into the earth’s dark matter (while my grave went...