Sublime

‘In the fort I saw the finest set of buildings in the world - but no one was caring for them. They were all falling apart. My ancestors brought such sophisticated culture to India — but they have just let it disintegrate. In time it will just disappear and no one will ever know.’

In each region, the Iron Age archaeological features correlate remarkably closely to the administrative units of land and populace recorded for the same areas in the law codes and surveys of the early Middle Ages, and even into the early modern period. At the Dysjane site in Tinghaug (literally ‘thing-mound’), Rogaland, for example, the thirty-two

This is more or less the argument of Roger Scruton in positioning environmentalism as a deservedly (politically) conservative cause. He writes in Green Philosophy, For the conservative, politics concerns the maintenance and repair of homeostatic systems — systems that correct themselves in response to destabilizing change. Markets are homeostatic s

Despite the best efforts of committed housing activists, much of the energy in this arena was absorbed into bourgeois consumer activism. A fetish for the gritty and the obscure was transmuted into delectable luxury goods.