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Simon Taylor

Simon Taylor

https://orcid.org/0009-0008-6687-4647

a note on Walter Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” from lecture 7, Theory & Context

… Walter Benjamin is misunderstood in his essay of 1935 if it is thought he is referring to what is particular to an artwork, or to what is unique and singular in general: the reproduction he is referring to is not so much to do with the reproduction of an original

from Night Thoughts by Wallace Shawn, published by Haymarket books radical, independent, nonprofit book publisher … make our books a vibrant and organic part of social movements and the education and development of a critical, engaged, international left.

The aggressiveness that has been our daily mode of being can’t help us any more. We wake up and start massacring people whom we see as our enemies. We wake up and break into the earth with gigantic drills and terrifying explosions. We wake up and find our place

reading 4 am the Window by Tony Birch, I want to call him on the phone, let the poet know…

restless after a bout of strange dreams drinking hot chocolate reading poetry by a writer acclaiming sweet light of early mornings I want to call him on the phone let the poet know I knowbut don't have his number and who knows if he would answer having been

lucky you! Indulge all your worst tendencies and most sadistic desires

— why is it people like bad music? — it’s not that they like bad music, it’s that they prefer it. … almost all of those who are born unlucky have been brutally prevented from developing more than a fraction of their own abilities, and this is perhaps the most shocking

the book from the TV: DIEM25 TV

Everything Must Change! The World After Covid-19 is the book from conversations from the online television series from the Democracy In Europe Movement 2025. (ed.s Renata Ávila and Srećko Horvat, OR Books, 2020.) DIEM TV diem25 it’s probably more important to know that it happened, that it’s

Curzio Malaparte, choice cuts of The Skin with photos by Lieutenant Wayne Miller illustrating

the moon broke the edge of the crater like an eggshell — Malaparte, The Skin, translated brilliantly by David Moore, New York Review Book publication, 2013. Original work published as La pelle, 1949. p. 36 All of us, officers and men, vied with one another to see which of us could

Enola Gay