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
Life on Caye Caulker
Dogs on Film – Part 1
Some of my friends know that I have been threatening to write a lengthy book about dogs on film for quite some time. The idea
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
A Dream of Alien Hands
Last night I had a dream in which I assisted in the deliberate and consensual mutilation of a man’s hands. We were sitti
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