Things I have read of late
BBC AS ECHO CHAMBER: A REVIEW OF “HYPERNORMALISATION” by Robin Parmar
Here’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…
Read MoreHito Steyerl – Politics of Post-Representation
This is good: Hito Steyerl – Politics of Post-Representation
Read MoreWords – in pictures
Here’s what I’ve been reading, in no particular order.
Read MoreConsumed – David Cronenberg
Thinking about my work this week, I realise that Cronenberg’s Consumed (2014), his first novel, is actually kinda pivotal. Two lovers connecting via Skype, the cannibalism of a French philosopher, gadget (camera) obsession, 3D printer recreation of the body via email instructions, Kim Jong-un. See what I mean? No wonder I’m making Screen Used. Sure, you could call it sub-Ballardian, but it’s…
Read MoreTransit #3 Zine online
Read the brilliant zine right here. Thank you Marcus Jack.
Read MoreThe Atrocity Exhibition BBC film (1970)
Made 3 years before Crash was published, 5 before High-Rise came out.
Read More2 further bits on dfw and IJ – and some maps
Just because I’m re-thinking links between reading & writing, making & articulating. Infinite Jest at 20: 20 things you need to know Why David Foster Wallace should not be worshipped as a secular saint
Read MoreMuriel Spark
And I’ll be having a break from Muriel for a while – if you’re to read just one, make it The Public Image. To be continued…
Read MoreChantal Akerman 1950-2015 on Film Studies for Free
Film Studies For Free NO HOME MOVIE: In Warm Memory of Chantal Akerman (1950-2015)Posted: 06 Oct 2015 07:21 AM PDT Akerman’s search for images that represent nothing, and mean nothing else (except perhaps themselves – and even this is difficult enough) while she focuses her camera on observing the minutiae of women’s lives, is expressed in…
Read MoreThe first-person essays boom
Top editors on why confessional writing matters…
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