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
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
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