Tag Archives: politics
watch this space
Empty Space: I did my corrections in pencil on hard copy. Today will probably be the last time in history that an author puts a manuscript in a plastic bag & lugs it across London in the piss wet rain … Continue reading
the centauri device
I never liked that book much but at least it took the piss out of sf’s three main tenets: (1) The reader-identification character always drives the action; (2) The universe is knowable; (3) the universe is anthropocentrically structured & its … Continue reading
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karaoke culture
Karaoke Culture is a sharp piece of commentary. As ever, Ugresic sucks you in with wit & mad charm; cheekily sandbags you with her ability to merge her observations of cultural events, venues & styles; engineers cheerful hit & run … Continue reading
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this & that
LitFic in crisis, Lars lyer at The White Review (via the always-interesting The Practise of Writing). Owen Hatherly on the “mechanical sublime” in the context of the Lloyds building, with an interesting contribution from Lewism in the comments. I like … Continue reading
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tattoo as brand
Steve Mosby at The Left Room reacts to H&M’s new “Lisbeth Salander” range of clothing, a predictable but still somehow astonishing act of exploitation. Steve makes some excellent points about just what is being exploited here, but I don’t know … Continue reading
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angels in the made world
It is not enough to love your products; when the people who created them die, you are required to enter a kind of spiritual decline. What does it mean to weep for the inventor of the iPhone? For me it … Continue reading
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