George Ttoouli

Welcome

Welcome to my homepage. This site was launched with support from an Arts Council England grant in July 2022.

The cover of Brian Blanchfield's essay collection, Proxies

Proximity Mining

A reflection on the multitudes I have contained and killed, via Brian Blanchfield's essays.

The cover of Tim Marshall's book, Prisoners of Geography

Tim Marshall’s Geographical Prisons

Thoughts on Marshall's bestselling geopolitics book, recollected in tranquility.

The cover of the 1990s UK Paladin edition of Robert Coover's A Night at the Movies, or You Must Remember This, featuring a collage of stock film images framed in silver and a quotation from Peter Sheridan, Daily Mail, reading: "Salvador Dali has nightmares like this"

Quotation: Robert Coover

“Ah, well, those were the days, the projectionist thinks, changing reels in his empty palace. The age of gold, to phrase a coin..."

Proximity Mining

A reflection on the multitudes I have contained and killed, via Brian Blanchfield's essays.

Tim Marshall’s Geographical Prisons

Thoughts on Marshall's bestselling geopolitics book, recollected in tranquility.

Currently Reading

Catherine Okoronkwo, Bilie Na Ntụ / Rise from the Ashes
Natalie Bennett, Change Everything
Izzeldin Abuelaish, I Shall Not Hate
Brian Blanchfield, Proxies
Snackbox II: Snack to the Future, ed. Aaron Kent
Edgar Pangborn, Davy
Jorie Graham, [To] The Last [Be] Human
James Joyce, Ulysses (this may be here a while)

To love is merely to grow tired of being alone: it is therefore both cowardly and a betrayal of ourselves.

Vicente Guedes (Fernando Pessoa), The Book of Disquiet, trans. Margaret Jull Costa

Recent Blog Posts

Proximity Mining

Tim Marshall’s Geographical Prisons

Quotation: Robert Coover

Recent Blog Posts

Proximity Mining

Tim Marshall’s Geographical Prisons

Currently Reading