Source #116 Autumn 2024 signed copy quiet interlude for noisy times

quiet interlude for noisy times

the book explores power structures and how to navigate them

the London and International networks make contact in a series of elegant eighteenth-century public rooms

the sources multiply histories by highlighting diverse actors

Source #116 Autumn 2024 signed copy quiet interlude for noisy timesThe elements Earth, Air, Water, and Fire as described by Empedocles 2,500 years ago, are still relevant categories for thinking about our ecosystem and more particularly the way we are damaging it. As Conohar Scott writes, talking specifically about Fire, our assumption that we could harness combustion for our own ends without any consequences now looks hubristic, in a way that Empedocles would have recognised. Scott surveys the approaches