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A liberal interpretation

September 17, 2018

‘Not a day goes by without further frontline despatches from the war between our established liberal ideology and the strange new realities that body-forth from the future. Taking today — the one on which I sat down to write this article — as representative, I found in my morning bulletins a report about how the US Constitution’s vaunted separation of powers — personified by Special Counsel Robert Mueller — was leading inexorably to the indictment, and hence removal, of “rogue” President Donald Trump. Then there was an item about the minister for women, whose public musings about the rise in the numbers of young people applying for gender-reassignment therapies were being taken as prima facie evidence that she doubted the authenticity of trans people’s claims to be gender dysphoric.   More...

After 100 trips, I know how drugs help us deal with the darker side of life

May 4, 2018

Read Will’s piece about his experiences with LSD in Prospect here and listen to the podcast discussion here.

Headspace: The ‘romance delusion’

October 11, 2016

Headspace, the second edition of Prospect’s new monthly podcast, features Will Self debunking the “romance delusion”.

Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple’s Greatest Products – review

January 24, 2014

“Quoting his subject’s words at the head of the chapter on the design and development of Apple’s iPhone, Leander Kahney makes Jony Ive sound oracular: “When we are at these early stages in design … often we’ll talk about the story for the product — we’re talking about perception. We’re talking about how you feel about the product, not in a physical sense, but in a perceptual sense.” Throughout his biography of Apple’s design magus for nigh on the past two decades, Kahney comes at Ive’s notion of the “narrative” of a product time and again, but it’s this formulation that most closely approaches the metaphysical, seemingly suggesting that all those iMacs, PowerBooks, iPods and iPads that Ive has been responsible for mind-birthing should be considered not as mere phenomena, but actual noumena; for, what else can he mean by “perceptual” — as  distinct from “physical” — if not some apprehension of how the iPhone is in itself, freed from the capacitive touch of our fingers?   More...

Any Questions

May 31, 2012

Listen to Will Self on Radio 4’s Any Questions last month on the iPlayer here. Other speakers include Ken Clarke, Harriet Harman and the editor of Prospect, Bronwen Maddox (where, incidentally, Will has a large piece on the seduction of advertising and Robert Heath’s Seducing the Subconscious in the current issue).

Why the monarchy must go

April 27, 2011

Will Self’s piece about abolishing the monarchy is now on the Prospect website here.



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Will Self's latest book Will is published in hardback by Viking on 14 November 2019.

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  The Unbearable Lightness Of Being A Prawn Cracker
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Junk Mail
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Cock And Bull
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  The Quantity Theory Of Insanity
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The Sweet Smell Of Psychosis
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  My Idea Of Fun
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The Book Of Dave
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  Psychogeography
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Psycho Too
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  Liver
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How The Dead Live
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  Tough Tough Toys For Tough Tough Boys
Tough Tough Toys For Tough Tough Boys
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Dr Mukti And Other Tales Of Woe
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Feeding Frenzy
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