Archive - Summer Lightning

Scribes of a Small God

Origins of authorship and speculation on where it might go

Jun 9 •

Protocol Regret

Regretting following a protocol once the outcome becomes clear

Jun 2 •

May 2025

April 2025

J.G. Ballard saw that slop is everywhere but mostly within us

Apr 20 •

Tumbleweeds in Airport Towns

Marfa, Donald Judd, Borders

Apr 13 •

A Legacy Worn Every Day

Jackets and 'high background' art movements

Apr 9 •

March 2025

Between a Rock and a Nation State

Self censorship and citizenship

Mar 30 •

Impersonal Kindness

Public etiquette, repatrimonialization and Gandhi

Mar 10 •

Nostalgia For a Terrible Time

Masculinity, video games and fathers

Mar 1 •

February 2025

Professionalization is the Mind Killer

A short review of To Live and Die in L.A and more LLM writing experiments

Feb 17 •

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