Books

Altered Grammar: Re-reading Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four in the Time of Trump

There is a terrifying moment in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four just after Winston and Julia have spent their final sto

k-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher (2004-2016)

Repeater Books Paperback ISBN: 9781912248285 eBook ISBN: 9781912248292 Publication date: 15th November, 2018 “We need to inv

Tariq Goddard’s ‘Nature and Necessity’ : A Palace of Swords Reversed

Tariq Goddard’s monolithic new novel Nature and Necessity (Repeater Books, 2017) is an unremittingly dark horror story. It o

Beckett & Bacon: Giving Life a New Power of Laughter in the Face of Death

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 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,

The Affective Moment – A Draft Introduction

‘Art and nothing but art! It is the great means of making life possible, the great seduction of life, the great stimulant to