I write, as you may have discovered, radical philosophy and outsider fiction. My work, which is now hosted mostly on my Substack, has been widely read, deeply loved, viscerally detested, and generously endorsed by some notable trouble-makers.
Life-wise, I have worked—in Russian cement factories, Spanish anarchist squats, Japanese high schools, Qatari military schools, Sudanese oil companies and Saudi shit-holes—and I have groomed horses, impersonated priests and sold shrunken heads—but it’s in avoiding work, for twenty five years, that I have really succeeded.
Contacting Me
You can write to me at the email address here, on the drawing of me. Please tell me a bit about yourself, because it’s nice to feel that you are talking to a flesh-and-blood person and not a disembodied virtual brain machine-gunning questions—but don’t worry if you would prefer just to write a few lines of anonymous abuse, because that too I will warmly welcome into my innermost.
There’s also a mailing list pop up at the top of these pages (which you can dismiss). If you put your address there you’ll get very occasional news updates of my doings and froings. It’s a good idea to do so if you like my stuff because I don’t have any other way of making announcements. I won’t put your name on the mailing list if you just write to me though.
About My Work
I am the author of The Apocalypedia, a subversive philosophical dictionary, Self & Unself, an ambitious work of popular philosophy and 33 Myths of the System, a radical guide to the Unhappy Supermind we call ‘the world’ and Ad Radicem, a series of radical reflections on the human condition. I also have a simple illustrated handbook to the whole thing called The Fire Sermon.
I also have published two novel, the first called Drowning is Fine, is a tragi-comic coming of age tale about crap sex, desperate penury and ecstatic erotic revolution in shitty South London. The second, Fired, is a mind-blowing burlesque epic about two brothers making their way down through seven levels of urban hell, to an uncanny underworld of strange delight.
As I say, I now publish work on Substack, so if you like what you see here, please subscribe there. Or here;
