Jack Dolan

Music, Philosophy & Cultural Criticism @jointhepressure

[Jack Dolan @IcelationWorks]

I've released a new article outlining the tone of the IWP Podcast space. More to follow. 📝❄️

https://t.co/Ht8kSPqxlE

#Philosophy #artㅤㅤㅤㅤ #Greekmythology

[Jack Dolan @IcelationWorks]

New video up on the IWP Podcast page, in which I recite a passage from Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy and briefly touch on my own interpretation.

📎Link with text: https://t.co/X0GNROXc1N

#mythology #Apollo #Nietzsche

[Jack Dolan @IcelationWorks]

@KlangSignals @abulmogard @blackknoll @jointhepressure My pleasure! 📝🔥

[Klang Signals @KlangSignals]

@IcelationWorks @abulmogard @blackknoll @jointhepressure Thanks so much Jack Dolan / @IcelationWorks for the this interview!

[Klang Signals @KlangSignals]

New interview with @abulmogard & @blackknoll on collaboration, live shows & new album - Where Light Pauses in the Silence of the Sun (out via Black Knoll Editions).
Thanks Jack Dolan @IcelationWorks & @jointhepressure
Photo: Iulia Alexandra Magheru

https://t.co/sJYZprY0sn

[Klang Signals @KlangSignals]

“he returns to his ambient side, exploring themes such as memory, grief, and transitions with his characteristic sonic richness.”

Words on new Lusine album (on @ghostly ) for August @Mixmag_ES
Thanks @paranoidtxt

https://t.co/REdrPferx3

#electronicmusic #ambient #downtempo

[Klang Signals @KlangSignals]

Lusine - Melting Days: Bandcamp Listening Party
Only 18 hours left until it starts!
Join Lusine (Jeff McIlwain) and celebrate his 10th full-length album. Bring your questions, comments, a drink, and your headphones!
Album out on @ghostly
RSVP here: https://t.co/MLbPplLhwZ

[Mark McConville @Writer1990Mark]

I will have a massive review of a book from a legendary writer who interviewed Nirvana back in the day. This is my time to shine. 🎸🖋

[Mark McConville @Writer1990Mark]

Check out this music retrospective. Thanks to @IcelationWorks for publishing. 🎸🖋😊: https://t.co/FdB2udJGdm

[Jack Dolan @IcelationWorks]

@Writer1990Mark 🔥😎

[Mark McConville @Writer1990Mark]

Enormous gratitude to Jack for publishing this album retrospective. He’s a true gentleman and astute writer. 🎸❤️🖋😊

[Jack Dolan @IcelationWorks]

After a lengthy summer melting period, @Writer1990Mark has rebooted the Icelation Works blog pages with a retrospective on Rise Against's "The Sufferer & The Witness" - a record that defined a very Millennial incarnation of political punk. 🔥🎸

https://t.co/JbSiHhYH0X

[Jack Dolan @IcelationWorks]

@KlangSignals @ghostly @jointhepressure 🔥🙏

[Klang Signals @KlangSignals]

New interview with Lusine! Jeff McIlwain discusses his new Melting Days album (on @ghostly) & drops new single, Bird’s Eye.
Thanks Jack Dolan @IcelationWorks & @jointhepressure 🙏🏻

https://t.co/j5UHI2dxij

#electronicmusic #experimentalelectronicmusic #ambient #experimentalmusic

[Mark McConville @Writer1990Mark]

Got a band retrospective piece coming soon. Thanks to @IcelationWorks for choosing to publish it. 🎸🖋😊

[Jack Dolan @IcelationWorks]

I've posted my debut album on my YouTube for free. It's an odd vibe - not quite fitting of any genre, but every bit honest, creative, and unapologetically transcendent. And that was exactly the point. 🎛️😎

https://t.co/Qr8q3jNJrQ

[Jack Dolan @IcelationWorks]

Another ponderance on Substack: Old English Stoicism, Wyrd, and Anglo-Saxon ontology read through a Nietzschean lens and drawn to a modern parallel. Pleasing comments on this piece in the IWP Journal too. 👍

More uploads coming -- just as soon as I recover from this infernal cold-spring flu. 🥶

Substack:
https://t.co/44WTJLuSLC

[Jack Dolan @IcelationWorks]

This is a three-part series in which I discuss the philosophical undercurrents of Old English poetry through a Nietzschean lens. The three essays cover The Wanderer, The Battle of Brunanburh, and The Seafarer. Written by anonymous Anglo-Saxon poets during the early Dark Ages, each poem contains what I'd argue is a remarkably coherent philosophical worldview, and one that predates and yet closely parallels both classical Stoicism and Nietzsche's later thinking on will, impermanence, and the creation of meaning in the absence of reliable outcomes.

The core argument running through all three is straightforward in that the Anglo-Saxon tradition understood, long before Western philosophical vocabulary existed to describe it, that the world offers no metaphysical guarantee of justice or reward, and that this is not a reason for despair but the very condition that makes genuine bravery in the face of (perceived) nihilism possible. The relevance to today is, I think, fairly obvious, for these are texts written over a thousand years ago that have, if anything, grown more relevant rather than less.

It’s a niche subject but it's something I've been wanting to examine for a while.

[Jack Dolan @IcelationWorks]

New essay on Substack. 📝🎙���
https://t.co/xRdxbHGbz8

#OldEnglish #AngloSaxons #Stoicism #Poetry #Philosophy

[Jack Dolan @IcelationWorks]

New essay on Substack. 📝🎙️
https://t.co/xRdxbHGbz8

#OldEnglish #AngloSaxons #Stoicism #Poetry #Philosophy

[Hesse Philosophy @HermannHessed]

“He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.”

― Jean-Luc Godard

[Athenian Stranger @Athens_Stranger]

Nietzsche on aristocracy:

“Not knowing anything about commerce is noble — To sell one’s virtue only at the highest price, let alone to practice usury with it as teacher, civil servant, artist — turns talent and genius into a shopkeeper’s affair.”