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List Price: £12.50 Publication: 31st March 2026 Format: Paperback ~ 64pp. Size: 13 x 21.6 cm ISBN: 978-1-917251-12-9 Tags: Systems Thinking, gaps, generalities, specificity, nothingness, quantum vacuum, anomalies, apocalypticism, occult mystery, ghosts and spirits, fictioning, hyper‑empiricism, coincidence, philosophy, social and political philosophy, cultural theory, critical theory, metaphysics, epistemology, radical thought, essays, , neoliberalism, surveillance capitalism, individualism, gap politics, climate and collapse, colonialism, Donald Crowhurst, Teignmouth Electron, Nineteen Eighty‑Four, democracy and authoritarianism About the Author |
Mind the Gaps
What if the universe is stitched together with absences? What if our deepest realities – personal, political, cosmic – are not shaped by grand ideas or all-encompassing ‘explanations’, but by the tiny, unremarked
gaps between them? In this kaleidoscopic essay, Phil Smith covers some unlikely terrain: from the quantum unevenness of the cosmos to the haunted ruins of mines and the fragile misadventures of lost mariners. He rejects the siren call of big, smooth answers and plunges into the turbulent space where anomalies, coincidences and disturbances matter. Phil gathers stories, observations and practices from the disturbed edges of culture, ecology and everyday life –inviting us to attend to absences, to find hope in the vacuum and to experiment with living differently in the leaks and loopholes of existence. “My big mistake was to assume that it was the generalities,
the big structures, the overarching concepts and monster categories that have the important meaning, that are where the power lies, that are the tipping points and the places of leverage. No, it is the gaps.” Readership:This is a book for anyone who is growing disillusioned with grand theories and great ideals, who is growing weary of completism and is ready to see ‘meaningful meaninglessness’ as a possibility.
It’s a book for dreamers and dissidents, walkers and fictioners, lovers of little things and wild mysteries. Let it pry open the space between certainties and show the rich, unpredictable life that emerges there. Fault Lines:The Fault Lines essay series explores the cracks in the stories modern civilisation tells itself — about progress, control, care, truth, and what counts as 'real'.
Each short book takes a single fault line in contemporary life and prises it open: a seam where systems grind against lived experience, where official narratives no longer fit what people feel in their bones. 1. A Guide to the Unconformity 2. Mind the Gaps |
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