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Lars Iyer's Blog
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2026
18 Jun 2026
9 Jan 2026
2025
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2025/08/28/typepad-will-soon-be-closed-permanently-which-means-this-blog-and-the-other-blogs-that-i-run-from-typepad-one-for-each-of/original ↗
28 Aug 2025
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2025/08/26/more-and-more-the-essential-feature-in-kafka-seems-to-me-is-humour-he-himself-was-not-a-humourist-of-course-rather-he-wa/original ↗
26 Aug 2025
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2025/08/13/walter-benjamin-in-a-letter-to-gershom-scholem-writes-be-that-as-it-may-i-imagine-that-whoever-succeeds-in-discovering-th/original ↗
13 Aug 2025
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2025/08/01/i-have-a-slight-problem-with-beckett-i-think-some-of-it-is-fantastic-i-always-remember-there-was-a-french-magazine-that-ask/original ↗
1 Aug 2025
21 Jun 2025
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2025/06/21/thus-canettis-hatred-of-injustice-is-intrinsically-braided-with-his-hatred-of-death-for-death-is-the-ultimate-injustice/original ↗
21 Jun 2025
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2025/06/21/a-few-years-later-in-what-seems-to-be-his-last-appearance-on-the-record-in-print-again-in-fangoria-st-john-says-of-his-pr/original ↗
21 Jun 2025
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2025/06/21/in-a-rejoinder-to-the-hegelian-notion-that-philosophy-only-has-the-task-of-painting-the-gray-of-the-world-in-gray-adorno-onc/original ↗
21 Jun 2025
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2025/06/21/what-is-comical-as-we-saw-is-a-personality-who-makes-his-own-actions-contradictory-and-so-brings-them-to-nothing-while-rem/original ↗
21 Jun 2025
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2025/06/21/domenico-is-an-old-man-he-shuffles-through-the-streets-and-through-the-vacant-building-where-he-resides-domenico-was-a-scho/original ↗
21 Jun 2025
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2025/06/21/what-ancestor-speaks-in-me-i-cant-live-simultaneously-in-my-head-and-in-my-body-thats-why-i-cant-be-just-one-person-i-can/original ↗
21 Jun 2025
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2025/06/21/consider-a-representative-sebaldian-scene-a-man-wanders-the-historical-quarter-of-a-european-city-in-which-he-is-a-stranger/original ↗
21 Jun 2025
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2025/06/21/who-is-the-senders-penultimate-song-world-of-life-is-buoyed-by-strings-and-a-fanfare-of-horns-fay-delivers-the-opening/original ↗
21 Jun 2025
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2025/06/21/in-the-1945-broadcast-to-take-just-one-example-the-sense-of-relief-is-almost-physical-after-so-many-years-when-good-and-e/original ↗
21 Jun 2025
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2025/06/21/aaj-what-are-the-biggest-obstacles-facing-jazz-musicians-today-and-are-they-different-from-the-obstacles-facing-musicians-w/original ↗
21 Jun 2025
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2025/02/24/insatantango-the-problems-were-not-because-i-wanted-a-faithful-rendering-it-was-not-an-adaptation-because-we-dont-do/original ↗
24 Feb 2025
2024
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2024/12/21/jack-hanson-mentions-my-weil-briefly-in-his-essay-whose-weil-simone-patron-saint-of-everyone-published-in-the-drift/original ↗
21 Dec 2024
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2024/11/17/modernity-the-time-of-hell-th-e-punishments-of-hell-are-always-the-newest-thing-going-in-this-domain-what-is-at-issue-is-n/original ↗
17 Nov 2024
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2024/10/23/in-the-uk-the-business-school-academic-generally-lacks-cultural-capital-largely-because-the-economic-utilitarianism-of-busi/original ↗
23 Oct 2024
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2024/10/08/ethan-taubes-although-a-decade-earlier-i-once-did-confront-my-father-about-the-book-after-it-had-come-out-it-was-on/original ↗
8 Oct 2024
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2024/10/08/hard-to-be-a-godis-such-a-singular-anomaly-that-its-tempting-to-suspend-any-value-judgment-i-felt-as-much-overwhelmed-op/original ↗
8 Oct 2024
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2024/09/30/the-late-rembrandt-self-portraits-contain-or-embody-a-paradox-they-are-clearly-about-old-age-yet-they-address-the-future-t/original ↗
30 Sept 2024
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2024/09/27/hannah-arendt-prefaces-the-chapter-on-action-in-the-human-condition-with-an-unusual-line-from-isak-dinesen-all-sorrows-ca/original ↗
27 Sept 2024
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2024/09/27/although-gershom-scholem-felt-no-sympathy-for-rosenzweigs-project-it-was-nonetheless-him-who-spotted-the-crucial-role-of/original ↗
27 Sept 2024
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2024/09/26/until-recently-the-east-used-to-be-the-guardian-of-darkness-i-mean-the-east-farther-away-geographically-but-also-eastern-eu/original ↗
26 Sept 2024
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2024/09/19/it-is-the-connection-with-pascal-that-explains-why-rohmers-work-is-often-linked-to-jansenism-jansenism-was-a-movement-in/original ↗
19 Sept 2024
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2024/09/19/there-are-very-few-close-ups-or-focus-pulls-and-all-the-time-a-gap-is-maintained-between-the-viewer-and-the-viewed-this-is/original ↗
19 Sept 2024
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2024/09/18/for-taubes-nietzsches-atheism-is-not-a-heroic-negativism-a-reversal-of-pascals-wager-but-a-living-of-the-death-of-go/original ↗
18 Sept 2024
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2024/09/18/it-has-been-said-of-both-swift-and-gogol-that-they-did-everything-they-could-to-go-mad-and-in-the-end-they-succeeded-holde/original ↗
18 Sept 2024
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2024/09/18/as-henry-rollins-says-of-him-he-really-is-that-guy-you-really-hoped-you-could-be-but-werent-if-youre-in-band-you/original ↗
18 Sept 2024
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2024/09/18/this-is-linklaters-third-film-after-slacker-1991-and-dazed-and-confused-1993-hes-onto-something-he-likes-the-way-ordin/original ↗
18 Sept 2024
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2024/09/18/a-lot-of-bands-work-very-hard-to-make-you-appreciate-their-meticulous-craft-or-browbeat-you-with-hooks-but-pavement-tossed-o/original ↗
18 Sept 2024
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2024/09/18/here-lyotard-is-icily-precise-the-university-once-held-the-high-calling-of-the-formation-and-dissemination-of-a-general-m/original ↗
18 Sept 2024
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2024/09/18/synth-pop-went-through-two-distinct-phases-the-first-was-all-about-dehumanisation-chic-that-didnt-mean-the-music-was-emotio/original ↗
18 Sept 2024
18 Sept 2024
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2024/09/18/the-hierarchical-status-of-the-auteur-bussed-in-from-a-luxury-hotel-was-anathema-to-rohmers-working-methods-as-his-film/original ↗
18 Sept 2024
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2024/09/18/the-absolutely-negative-expectant-emotion-despairthis-isexpectation-as-eliminated-expectationexpectation-in-its/original ↗
18 Sept 2024
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2024/09/18/german-didnt-trust-soviet-archives-and-newsreels-when-it-came-to-collecting-information-so-he-sought-out-alternative-docu/original ↗
18 Sept 2024
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2024/09/18/russia-is-a-nation-that-never-had-a-renaissance-german-would-say-in-the-behind-the-scenes-footage-ofhard-to-be-a-god/original ↗
18 Sept 2024
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2024/09/18/disharmony-reigns-in-all-bergmans-films-but-in-the-serpents-egg-the-pessimism-is-almost-cosmic-no-longer-restricted-t/original ↗
18 Sept 2024
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2024/09/18/as-a-child-i-had-heard-that-the-end-of-the-world-would-come-just-when-no-one-was-thinking-about-it-and-so-i-spent-many-nigh/original ↗
18 Sept 2024
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2024/09/18/it-usually-starts-with-a-personal-problem-which-is-also-reflective-of-a-social-malaise-and-then-i-find-an-occupational-metap/original ↗
18 Sept 2024
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2024/09/18/the-image-bookbelongs-to-that-robust-genre-the-soaring-lament-of-the-humiliated-marxist-the-fifth-section-la-region-ce/original ↗
18 Sept 2024
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2024/09/18/jen-and-itts-relationship-is-the-main-story-i-suppose-but-that-would-be-like-saying-hamlet-is-about-a-boy-and-his-mother-w/original ↗
18 Sept 2024
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2024/09/18/i-quote-in-the-preface-one-of-his-newspaper-articles-aboutaccattone1961-in-which-he-writes-religiosity-lies-not-in-t/original ↗
18 Sept 2024
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2024/09/18/john-cale-the-velvet-undergrounds-other-musical-genius-thought-his-often-appalling-behaviour-was-rooted-in-fears-abou/original ↗
18 Sept 2024
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2024/09/18/russian-history-as-german-has-said-is-an-endless-process-of-degradation-abuse-and-humiliation-the-temperamental-flux/original ↗
18 Sept 2024
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2024/09/18/this-extreme-precision-also-prevailed-on-the-set-where-german-was-known-for-his-special-attention-to-extras-svetlana-karmal/original ↗
18 Sept 2024
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2024/09/18/the-complaint-extended-to-nietzsches-writing-style-i-can-no-longer-read-nietzsche-or-take-an-interest-in-him-he-seems-too-n/original ↗
18 Sept 2024
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2024/09/18/roegs-photography-reinforces-this-notion-he-is-careful-to-keep-us-at-a-distance-from-the-physical-sufferings-of-his-characte/original ↗
18 Sept 2024
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2024/09/18/i-called-go-kart-mozart-a-b-side-band-it-didnt-mean-that-they-were-inferior-songs-it-simply-meant-that-you-would-take-aw/original ↗
18 Sept 2024
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2024/09/13/here-i-am-reading-my-essay-the-opposite-direction-taubes-bernhard-and-the-gnostic-imaginary-in-the-journal-for-discarded-d/original ↗
13 Sept 2024
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2024/09/10/apocalypticism-negates-this-world-in-its-fullness-it-brackets-the-entire-world-negatively-the-world-is-a-totality-whi/original ↗
10 Sept 2024
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2024/09/10/today-the-ways-of-death-or-halfdeath-have-an-almost-sure-and-easy-stronghold-on-us-here-each-goes-his-own-way-into-the-same-1/original ↗
10 Sept 2024
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2024/09/10/today-the-ways-of-death-or-halfdeath-have-an-almost-sure-and-easy-stronghold-on-us-here-each-goes-his-own-way-into-the-same/original ↗
10 Sept 2024