Andy West

01/05/2022 29 min
Andy West

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Philosopher Andy West discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known.
Andy West is philosopher in residence at HMP Pentonville, London. His writing has been published in The Guardian, Aeon, The Big Issue, 3AM Magazine and Lito. He is the author of The Life Inside: A Memoir of Prison, Family and Philosophy (Picador 2022). For more information, go to https://www.amazon.co.uk/Life-Inside-Memoir-Prison-Philosophy/dp/1529032016/


Rectify https://www.vulture.com/2016/12/rectify-review-there-may-never-be-a-show-like-it-again.html


Little Bad Thing https://ethics.org.au/littlebadthing/


Nietzsche's idea of The Festival of Punishment https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft4q2nb3dn&chunk.id=d0e604&toc.depth=100&toc.id=d0e595&brand=ucpress


Kafka’s short story Prometheus https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/06/29/the-rescue-will-begin-in-its-own-time


Nostalgia for the Light https://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/jul/12/nostalgia-for-the-light-review


The Graybar Hotel https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/sep/08/the-graybar-hotel-curtis-dawkins-review



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