Beckett & Bacon: Giving Life a New Power of Laughter in the Face of Death
Marina Abramovic: The Row About “Nothing”
There has been some controversy, reported in the media during the last few days (see here and here), concerning Serbian-born p
Kleist
In 1937 the German physicist Gustav Kleist disappeared. This film uses recently discovered archive recordings with his wife an
Claire Morgan: The Slow Fire
“That everything is on fire, slow fire, and we’re all less than a million breaths away from an oblivion more total
The Affectivity of Prehistoric Art (Part 3)
The arguments presented by those archaeological and anthropological theorists discussed in Part 2 are obviously deeply flawed,
The Great Beauty (Paolo Sorrentino, 2013)
Some of the great works of literary impressionism – Proust’s A la recherche du temps perdu, Zola’s Germinal,
‘A Knot of Coherent Nonsense’: Reading Joyce’s ‘Finnegans Wake’…Again
This week I decided to have another go at reading James Joyce’s massive book Finnegans Wake, and bought an old second-ha
The Affectivity of Prehistoric Art (Part 2)
I was queuing for tickets to visit the cave of Les Combarelles when I overheard a conversation between two American prehistori
The Affectivity of Prehistoric Art (Part 1)
In the flickering lamplight, deep in a cave at Bedeilhac in Southwestern France, a creature’s eye stares out from the rock,
Stray Ghost – Nothing, But Death
This is, quite simply, beautiful music. You should listen to it. [bandcamp width=350 height=470 album=2123065573 size=large bg