Simon Taylor

… going through the sale theory books at Verso, striking how monotonous the refrain is that these books deal with the present. Strikes me, because it is exactly of the present that we are forgetful. A Lavender user: “I would invest 20 seconds for each target at this stage, and do

What has capitalism to do to survive? Shatz represents the argument Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus presents, the first volume of Capitalism and Schizophrenia, to be dealing with what capitalism has to do to survive because “at its most extreme,” he writes, “capitalism encourages a kind of generalised schizophrenia, a

With serendipitous timing Adam Shatz’s Writers and Missionaries: Essays on the Radical Imagination (Verso, 2023) arrived today, serendipitous because of what I left out of said yobbism post. I had Oliver Bottini say it instead. There it came down to no longer belonging to a community of whatever sort

The tenets of civilisation are now being written by the authors of the gravest barbarity. Times have changed since Walter Benjamin’s day. I’m informed I’m up to 1,990 posts and 298 pages. My father before he died said, Life is too short to read square white

in an interview with Simon Denny, Quinn Slobodian identifies 2 of what Denny calls sub-art worlds, of people “programming at big cultural institutions, and museums especially, rather than galleries”: 1. “culturally engaged art plugging directly into marginalised identities and oppressed groups”… 2. another genre which “delves into the intersection of

So, make your mind up. Real space view with potential scariness, or some screen; gentle feel-good, wistful comedy, razor-sharp witterage, outright slapstick hilarity, engrossing human drama, historical epic, educational documentary, ambient meanderance, pure art appreciation, porn, horror, sport or news? Real space view, thanks. [for what I am referring to