May 04
2019
Well, it certainly 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 also involves reading, glowering near or pouring a red wine while casting long, suspicious sideways glances at the following…
Jul 15
2018Jul 06
2018Finally, I get it. I think so anyway. This book is currently changing my heed, into a marginally more understanding heed. And 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 GI 2018.
Do yourself a favour and buy Speculative Realism and Science Fiction by Brian Willems.
Mar 08
2018…seem to spring up everywhere when you start looking – all part of its symbolic mutability and what not. 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 Dream Within A Dream, Get Out, Possession, Arrival, The Story of Your Life, Memoirs of a Spacewoman, Blade Runner 2049 (again) & The Exterminating Angel. A mixed bag, I think you can agree. What can I say? I’m a nibbler and a picker at the black, white and red buffet…
Aug 16
2017…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 all on the bill. No Wodehouse, what?
Jun 18
2017Three mentions of Peter, and some ‘professor’…
and
and not forgetting
Cumbrian Crack (really) 26 May 2017
Peter (Screen Shot) Digital film, 30 minutes
Jun 16
2017Reading 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.
Dec 06
2016Here’s the real reason Curtis’ latest was so depressing:
BBC as Echo Chamber – thanks Torsten. And yet there’s a huge problem with Robin’s critique and that’s the presumption that Curtis believes what he makes his narrator say. No one can believe that. No one, anywhere, ever.
And is it so wrong to want certainties? Time to re-watch The Century of the Self…
Screen shot – Hypernormalisation, 2016
Dec 06
2016This is good: Hito Steyerl – Politics of Post-Representation
Nov 20
2016
