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In another essay, developing his reasons for admiring W. G. Sebald, [James
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Links: Culture
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Fear and Loathing in the Gulf - [image: crumb1]This isn't quite a graphic novel, more a series of images with running commentary. The drawings cover the most memorable moments of Fitzy's ...
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Painting the glass house black (Part Two) - [This is a placeholder for an extended set of reflections on the "occupation movement" here in California. It is the second part of an longer piece, the fi...
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Paul Auster on Autobiographical Fiction - [image: Paul Auster. Photograph by Mark Mahaney] *Stop Smiling* presents an unabridged interview with postmodern writer Paul Auster, including a variety of...
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Alex Chilton 1950-2010 - *Big Star - Stroke it Noel*
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Theresienstadt, Memory, Knowledge - Over at the always fascinating Conversational Reading, there is an intriguing post about Theresienstadt, W.G. Sebald, Shoah (the movie), memory, and more.
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Hobbesian Gnosticism - Me on the Hobbesian Gnosticism of The Road in Film Quarterly......
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happy/apocalyptic marx - There's another Historical Materialism at York in Toronto quite soon. Here is an affectionate parody of the happy Marx of North America. In solidarity!
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Essential(ist) oil ‘Aromatherapists consider sweet orange... - *Essential(ist) oil* ‘Aromatherapists consider sweet orange to be antidepressant oil and use it for anxiety, moodiness, nervousness and frustration.’ Sp...
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Neptune’s Pride #1 – alone in a sea of stars - Inspired by Rock Paper Shotgun I’ve signed up for the browser-based multiplayer space empire game Neptune’s Pride. For the uninitiated it’s a heavily strip...
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"It’s those little glimmers, shining from out of the ordinary, that one should be on the watch..." - ““It’s those little glimmers, shining from out of the ordinary, that one should be on the watch for…”” - *matthew coleman*
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THE INSURGENT CAN BE PURCHASED - Well, it finally has come. The Insurgent can be purchased. If anyone would like to post a link to it or write about it, or talk shit about me, or anythi...
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2x film option, 3x foreign rights sale - shoplifting from american apparel has been optioned for film by sangha films(who last year filmed the human war by noah cicero and are now raising money re ...
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Who do you trust? - In a post called "Living Questions" at *Speculum Criticum Traditionis*, philosopher-blogger Skholiast uses 9/11—more precisely, typical conversation around...
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419ers 613ers - He is almost a gentleman. Cornell, Oxford and even saving the children. They are all almost gentleman. He is. And he is. Yet still ‘corruption’ is a word a...
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Some people get by / with a little understanding - For a little while now clinics offering cosmetic surgery have been advertising on the billboards of the tube, and high-spirited citizens have been defacing...
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Melville Award . . . - Melville House’s The Confessions of Noa Weber by Gail Hareven, has won the Best Translated Book Award for Fiction, while the Ugly Duckling Presse book The ...
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“Ambiguous aims”: a review of Crash: Homage to J.G. Ballard [NSFW] - Ballard's writing has a strong connection to visual art. It informed his work and led to him befriending some of the leading artists of his time, while in ...
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Geometry is Everything - What this aesthetic shares with its uncomic *nouveau roman* forebears is an anti-naturalist, anti-humanist bent: we’re being given access not to a fully ro...
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Eagleton on 'the liberal literati' - I'm interested in the way a whole stratum of the liberal literati (Rushdie, to some extent Ian McEwan, A C Grayling, obviously Amis and Hitchens) - the v...
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The Almost-Skyscrapers of Britain, 1829-1944 - As another stop-gap before something proper, here's one-half of a talk I delivered next to and about Senate House in December, posted here in ambiguous c...
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Pitch-black ecology - The new Collapse is proving a provocative read, and I will come to Reza Negarestani and Manav Guha’s pieces in due course, but already I find myself in so...
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With Vacant Possession - So. ‘Avatar’. Yes. Wow. When I was a kid I would routinely project myself into the places depicted in my illustrated books. Now my kids, in addition to th...
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Kino Fist Salvagepunk Special! - Kino Fist will be making a slight, last-minute return to tie in with the Historical Materialism conference. Due to mine and Nina's current workload may u...
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I’m taking part in a live online book group discussion... - I’m taking part in a live online book group discussion of The Raw Shark Texts over on the readitswapit.co.uk forums on the 9th November at 8pm GMT. I’ll ...
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Isosceles merkins - Conrad W and I were walking back from somewhere. There was some water to cross, a canal or a river. I crossed where it was narrow and I could jump across. ...
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Mark Fisher reviews 'Dead Iraqis' - Mark Fisher’s *New Statesman* review of *Dead Iraqis* here. Dead Iraqis: Selected Short Stories of Ellis Sharp Reviewed here Details here ...
Links: Politics
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Greetings from sunny Amsterdam - Spring may officially still be a few days away, but both yesterday and today it was gorgeous weather here in Amsterdam. Even though we had a white Christma...
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New Guidelines, Old Tricks - Those with nothing to hide have nothing to fear; hence the Government has decided that the public would be better off not knowing the intelligence and securi...
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Students fighting for Socialism - The remarkable recent events at Sussex University, where following the violent repression and victimisation of students protesting against cuts, lecturers ...
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From GRITTV - Max Blumenthal calls attention to the difference between the theater of US Israel tensions and the peachy actual relations (and other issues): Norman Fin...
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China, Britain and the Nunzilla Conundrum: Anna Chen on BBC Radio 4 - China, Britain and the Nunzilla Conundrum Presented by Anna Chen, produced by Sally Heaven. BBC RADIO 4 – 11.00-11.30am Friday 19 March 2010 Listen for seve...
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Assault with a deadly weapon - From the Beeb, reported with an admirably straight face: A man who assaulted a female police officer with his penis has been fined. Marium Varinauskas, 28,...
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Goldstone report: a manufactured controversy - Filed under: Israeli / Palestinian, Videos
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Basis und Überbau - The excellent blogger Richard Crary cites, among some luminous passages from David Graeber, this criticism of the base/superstructure metaphor: What has pa...
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Review of 'Capitalist Realism' by Mark Fisher - This is a great little book. The Continental tradition in philosophy is still unparalleled in the resources it has to offer theorists attempting to charact...
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Even more Socialism 2009 - The Decline of California, Mike Davis and David Bacon Part 1 - Socialism 2009 from International Socialist on Vimeo. The Decline of California, Mike Dav...
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matthew eggleton - Too soon, Matt. Way too soon. Words really don’t work here. So I rob a little and edit a little from my favourites. First, Linton Kwesi Johnson: If I woz a...
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The al-Jazeera leak: how Blair benefits - The leak of a document which allegedly reveals that Tony Blair persuaded George Bush not to bomb al-Jazeera’s offices in Qatar last year raises some inter...
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