The launch of Ensemblance will be held on Tuesday the 10th of March at 18h at the French Institute of Edinburgh, in partnership with Edinburgh University Press. Free entrance.      

Thanks to funding from the Örebro University Library, I am glad to offer the introduction of my new book Ensemblance as an open access resource. You can download the pdf here: Introduction: A Thousand Platoons – The Enduring Importance of Esprit de Corps Ensemblance_-_Luis_de_Miranda_-_Introduction_-_Open_Access  

  illustration by Brian Rea ______________   There was not countdown, there was no K.O. In the loving ring of what we felt, Without any gloves, we sensed a flow – Above and below the belt.   The voices of time were our cornermen, Saying: “Counterpunch with a caress on the chin!” We tattooed the…

Socrates advised Alcibiades to take advantage of his youth to take care of himself. […] The movement by which the soul turns to itself is a movement in which one’s gaze is drawn “aloft” – towards the divine element, towards essences and the supracelestial world in which they are visible. […] When applying oneself to…

  Now he knows she is his soulmate (For lack of a better noun Designating the partner of fate With whom one is harmoniously bound).   An equilibrium found and yet to conquer, Between freedom and the pre-established: (The paradox of destiny is to alter Determinism with the accomplished).   Now she knows they are…

A pragmatic and even political horizon of crealectics is pluralism and diversity, rather than analytical reductionism. This is why sublimity, as cosmic emotion and holistic awareness, is as much needed as focal praxis. Thompson (1997, p. 222) explains, in his reading of process philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, that “thought narrows down an actual situation, in…

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