Things I have read of late
How We Made ‘The Kick Inside’
LOVED Paul Becker’s How We Made ‘The Kick Inside’. Feels so close to truth that early on you might worry Kate has been taken in vain. But it’s not in vain at all. I’m sure she’s right into this picking apart and almost becoming text about process, about making things. It’ll be on the Professional…
Read MoreRock-themed readin’
I’m loving Cosey Fanni Tutti’s Art Sex Music (thank you CS) & Denim and Leather: The Rise and Fall of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal by Michael Hann. The first is an inspiration (and Gen does not emerge unscathed) and the second is absolutely hilarious (and an excuse to post a quite early…
Read MoreAntennae – Issue 50 Spring 2020
In this issue of Antennae sits Shooting the Messenger, an essay by Snæbjörnsdóttir/Wilson (pp118-135). A delight to have the video Peter (2014) discussed here in this fresh context. Thank you MW. Here’s Snæbjörnsdóttir/Wilson’s introduction to the piece: ‘In these years, the sea and its behaviours increasingly serve as an urgent and unrelenting reminder of global…
Read MoreWhat is the quiet life anyway?
Mmmmmm, it involved re-watching Stalker on DVD while reading Geoff Dyer’s Zona. If you thought Stalker was a little swift at times, you know on the speedy side, then I recommend using some of your precious time in this intertextual flip-flop. I managed to stretch things out for an entire Sunday… The quite quiet life…
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Speculative Realism and Science Fiction by Brian Willems
I get it. I think so anyway. This book is currently changing my heed, into a marginally more understanding heed., an excited heed. Thank you Brian Willems for using the right tools for this geek. And thanks too to Rob Churm for programming a talk by Brian into the Old Hair Programme as part of…
Read MoreAlchemists and alchemical-like types…
…seem to spring up everywhere once you you get your eye in – all part of its symbolic mutability and whatnot. This week I have mostly been watching & reading, with Eggs and Aliens for The Curios Society as the excuse… The Holy Mountain, The Colour of Pomegranates, El Topo, Picnic at Hanging Rock, A…
Read MoreA summer comes to an end…
…and, bar a research trip to Carradale, thoughts must, inevitably, turn to the education of others. This summer I’ve not watched much, but I have read things. Here they are. A Naomi Mitchison obsession develops. Walter Tevis’ Mockingbird turns out to be wonderful. Ballard – no more required. Love, communication and rabbits were all on…
Read MoreSome 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
Read MoreWasting 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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