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<channel><title><![CDATA[Dr John Perivolaris - Journal]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.johnperivolaris.net/journal]]></link><description><![CDATA[Journal]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 13:19:23 +0000</pubDate><generator>Weebly</generator><item><title><![CDATA[TransEuropa Flight, 2026]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.johnperivolaris.net/journal/transeuropa-flight-2026]]></link><comments><![CDATA[http://www.johnperivolaris.net/journal/transeuropa-flight-2026#comments]]></comments><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 15:18:05 GMT</pubDate><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.johnperivolaris.net/journal/transeuropa-flight-2026</guid><description><![CDATA[      [...] ]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div><div class="wsite-image wsite-image-border-none " style="padding-top:10px;padding-bottom:10px;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;text-align:center"> <a> <img 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style="padding-top:10px;padding-bottom:10px;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;text-align:center"> <a> <img src="http://www.johnperivolaris.net/uploads/4/3/4/9/4349996/baptistchapelsharp_orig.jpg" alt="Picture" style="width:auto;max-width:100%" /> </a> <div style="display:block;font-size:90%"></div> </div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knighton Plaice Fish and Chip Shop, Main Street, Knighton, Powis, Wales, 2026]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.johnperivolaris.net/journal/knighton-plaice-fish-and-chip-shop-main-street-knighton-powis-wales-2026]]></link><comments><![CDATA[http://www.johnperivolaris.net/journal/knighton-plaice-fish-and-chip-shop-main-street-knighton-powis-wales-2026#comments]]></comments><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 19:03:20 GMT</pubDate><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.johnperivolaris.net/journal/knighton-plaice-fish-and-chip-shop-main-street-knighton-powis-wales-2026</guid><description><![CDATA[      [...] ]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div><div class="wsite-image wsite-image-border-none " style="padding-top:10px;padding-bottom:10px;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;text-align:center"> <a> <img src="http://www.johnperivolaris.net/uploads/4/3/4/9/4349996/knightonplaicesm_orig.jpg" alt="Picture" style="width:auto;max-width:100%" /> </a> <div style="display:block;font-size:90%"></div> </div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sloane Square Station, London, 2026]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.johnperivolaris.net/journal/sloane-square-station-london-2026]]></link><comments><![CDATA[http://www.johnperivolaris.net/journal/sloane-square-station-london-2026#comments]]></comments><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 09:07:26 GMT</pubDate><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.johnperivolaris.net/journal/sloane-square-station-london-2026</guid><description><![CDATA[      [...] ]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div><div class="wsite-image wsite-image-border-none " style="padding-top:10px;padding-bottom:10px;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;text-align:center"> <a> <img src="http://www.johnperivolaris.net/uploads/4/3/4/9/4349996/sloanesqsharp_orig.jpg" alt="Picture" style="width:auto;max-width:100%" /> </a> <div style="display:block;font-size:90%"></div> </div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Union Place, Glasgow, 2026]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.johnperivolaris.net/journal/union-place-glasgow-2026]]></link><comments><![CDATA[http://www.johnperivolaris.net/journal/union-place-glasgow-2026#comments]]></comments><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 14:42:32 GMT</pubDate><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.johnperivolaris.net/journal/union-place-glasgow-2026</guid><description><![CDATA[      [...] ]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div><div class="wsite-image wsite-image-border-none " style="padding-top:10px;padding-bottom:10px;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;text-align:center"> <a> <img src="http://www.johnperivolaris.net/uploads/4/3/4/9/4349996/r0000299tier447sharp_orig.jpg" alt="Picture" style="width:auto;max-width:100%" /> </a> <div style="display:block;font-size:90%"></div> </div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diary, 17-18 April, 2026]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.johnperivolaris.net/journal/diary-17-18-april-2026]]></link><comments><![CDATA[http://www.johnperivolaris.net/journal/diary-17-18-april-2026#comments]]></comments><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 10:00:42 GMT</pubDate><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.johnperivolaris.net/journal/diary-17-18-april-2026</guid><description><![CDATA[      [...] ]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div><div class="wsite-image wsite-image-border-none " style="padding-top:10px;padding-bottom:10px;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;text-align:center"> <a> <img src="http://www.johnperivolaris.net/uploads/4/3/4/9/4349996/17-18apr26sharp_orig.jpg" alt="Picture" style="width:auto;max-width:100%" /> </a> <div style="display:block;font-size:90%"></div> </div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness, Wellness, and Adorno]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.johnperivolaris.net/journal/happiness-wellness-and-adorno]]></link><comments><![CDATA[http://www.johnperivolaris.net/journal/happiness-wellness-and-adorno#comments]]></comments><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 10:41:55 GMT</pubDate><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.johnperivolaris.net/journal/happiness-wellness-and-adorno</guid><description><![CDATA[       As with many other things, Adorno anticipates our reduced human circumstances, among whose symptoms is the current obsession with happiness indices and wellness:&nbsp;&lsquo;As if a happiness gained through speculation on happiness were not the opposite, a further encroachment of institutionally planned behaviour-patterns on the ever-diminishing sphere of experience. [...] There is straight line of development between the gospel of happiness and the construction of camps of extermination  [...] ]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div><div class="wsite-image wsite-image-border-none " style="padding-top:10px;padding-bottom:10px;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;text-align:center"> <a> <img src="http://www.johnperivolaris.net/uploads/4/3/4/9/4349996/sounion3_orig.jpg" alt="Picture" style="width:auto;max-width:100%" /> </a> <div style="display:block;font-size:90%"></div> </div></div>  <div class="paragraph">As with many other things, Adorno anticipates our reduced human circumstances, among whose symptoms is the current obsession with happiness indices and wellness:&nbsp;<br /><br />&lsquo;As if a happiness gained through speculation on happiness were not the opposite, a further encroachment of institutionally planned behaviour-patterns on the ever-diminishing sphere of experience. [...] There is straight line of development between the gospel of happiness and the construction of camps of extermination so far off in Poland that each of our countrymen can convince himself that he cannot hear the screams of pain.&rsquo;<br />&nbsp;<br />(&lsquo;Invitation to the dance, Minima Moralia, tr. by E. F. N. Jephcott, London: Verso, 1999, p. 62-63)<br /><br />&nbsp;One can only conclude by blaming the predatory optimism of the capitalist doctrine of optimisation for making us aspirational self-loathing narcissists.&nbsp;<br></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diary, 26 April, 2026]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.johnperivolaris.net/journal/diary-26-april-2026]]></link><comments><![CDATA[http://www.johnperivolaris.net/journal/diary-26-april-2026#comments]]></comments><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:25:24 GMT</pubDate><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.johnperivolaris.net/journal/diary-26-april-2026</guid><description><![CDATA[      [...] ]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div><div class="wsite-image wsite-image-border-none " style="padding-top:10px;padding-bottom:10px;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;text-align:center"> <a> <img src="http://www.johnperivolaris.net/uploads/4/3/4/9/4349996/diary26apr26sharp_orig.jpg" alt="Picture" style="width:auto;max-width:100%" /> </a> <div style="display:block;font-size:90%"></div> </div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diary, 6-7 April, 2026]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.johnperivolaris.net/journal/diary-6-7-april-20269891302]]></link><comments><![CDATA[http://www.johnperivolaris.net/journal/diary-6-7-april-20269891302#comments]]></comments><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:24:10 GMT</pubDate><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.johnperivolaris.net/journal/diary-6-7-april-20269891302</guid><description><![CDATA[      [...] ]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div><div class="wsite-image wsite-image-border-none " style="padding-top:10px;padding-bottom:10px;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;text-align:center"> <a> <img src="http://www.johnperivolaris.net/uploads/4/3/4/9/4349996/diary6-7april26sharp_orig.jpg" alt="Picture" style="width:auto;max-width:100%" /> </a> <div style="display:block;font-size:90%"></div> </div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sauchiehall, Glasgow, 2026]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.johnperivolaris.net/journal/sauchiehall-glasgow-2026]]></link><comments><![CDATA[http://www.johnperivolaris.net/journal/sauchiehall-glasgow-2026#comments]]></comments><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 18:43:50 GMT</pubDate><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.johnperivolaris.net/journal/sauchiehall-glasgow-2026</guid><description><![CDATA[      [...] ]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div><div class="wsite-image wsite-image-border-none " style="padding-top:10px;padding-bottom:10px;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;text-align:center"> <a> <img src="http://www.johnperivolaris.net/uploads/4/3/4/9/4349996/r0000348tier4475sharp8bit_orig.jpg" alt="Picture" style="width:auto;max-width:100%" /> </a> <div style="display:block;font-size:90%"></div> </div></div>]]></content:encoded></item></channel></rss>