Simon Taylor

We visit New Caledonia for New Years. Unlike Condy Rice, of whom a BBC correspondent, speaking from Jerusalem, said recently, “She’s coming so that she’s come, if you like,” we have an idea. We’re on holiday to discover something, tourists with time to detour. It’s almost

more than seventy countries produce their own copies based on the Big Brother code of reality tv. The formula, the code, crosses national boundaries, is as global as the appeal of its drama – sex and fights. The degree of tolerance to that drama increases over time globally just as the

the first step is always like this the first step of another it expresses the possibility of a world beyond it and they have made it possible as the limit of what can be achieved the first step is always like this to go from this theatre to that theatre

Nothing feeds forgetfulness better than war … We all remain silent and they try to convince us that what we’ve seen, what we’ve done, what we’ve learned about ourselves and about others is an illusion, a nightmare that will pass. Wars have no memory, and nobody has the

Modern phonology lacks a dimension which would prevent it from playing with shadows on a single plane – Gilles Deleuze

the being-square of a circle – Gilles Deleuze