Bunker Mentality

I was en route to Leitrim for a second time in a month when ‘Zooropa,’ the U2 song from the album of the same name, came on the stereo (a consequence of Spotify’s predictive algorithm). I hadn’t heard the song in thirty years, the year the album came out and I was a student working … Read more

Review: Richard Kearney’s Touch

Touch: Recovering Our Most Vital Sense is a recently published work by Irish philosopher and public intellectual Richard Kearney. The book is the third in the ‘No Limits’ series published by Columbia University Press. The blurb and introduction promise a timely meditation on the importance of touch in an age of virtuality. The book, we … Read more