I Love Dick on the telly

And I can’t be the only one. Lots to love in Jill Soloway’s  TV version of Kraus’ novel. Excruciating in its accuracy of artists and desire. Hilarious of course. Some episodes directed by Andrea Arnold! Local fact: Ciara Philips has been in a lift with K. Bacon.

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The Handmaid’s Tale 2017

This 1985 Atwood has never shifted from my top ten, and, like 1984, it works because there’s nothing in it that isn’t happening right now, to someone, somewhere. While Orwell’s future is made richer with language (it includes a glossary), Atwood’s uses small, creeping increments of privation in the hope our ears prick up a…

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Some Press about Peter

Three mentions of Peter, and some ‘professor’… ITV News, 2 June 2017 at 6:00pm and Outer Places 12 June 2017 and not forgetting Cumbrian Crack (really) 26 May 2017

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Wasting Time on the Internet

Reading Wasting Time on the Internet by Kenneth Goldsmith this week, and planning workshops to test the resolve of the most share-hungry student… Oh, and I’m also wasting time on the internet.

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Twists in the Cord (or) Other Extensions of the Telephone

Before I head up to Hospitalfield in time for FIELDWORK International Summer School – Summer Festival, and thanks to a purchase of Civic Radar, a massive monograph of Lynn Hershman Leeson, I’m gorging on all things LHL today. Here’s a link to her 1994 ‘history of the telephone docudrama’, if you can believe the pigeon-holing, Twists…

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