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Electronic Book Lovers vs. The Page-Sniffers

By - David
Posted on December, 19, 2009January, 4, 2010

Laurence fondles the leather-effect binding of his complete works of Shakespeare, ‘a part of our heritage’, simultaneously using the volumes to display his refinement and his guest’s lack of taste. If the book goes digital, perhaps it makes this act of snobbery performed in Mike Leigh’s ‘Abigail’s Party’ less likely. A couple of new technical

A Drifting Country and a Sea in London

By - Julie Rafalski
Posted on December, 8, 2009

Dreams often allow us to do things that are impossible in waking life: hovering in mid air, walking across Antarctica, becoming a character in a film, sipping tea with a famous actor, sharing jokes with a relative who has been dead for years, speaking unknown languages flawlessly, travelling to places not found on any map…

‘Sarah Palin’ is an anagram of ‘Sharia Plan’

By - David
Posted on December, 8, 2009December, 8, 2009

Sometimes you look at a name and you just know there is an anagram in there. ‘Tiger Woods’ also helps us ponder the danger of hubris with ‘I god’s tower’ and the inevitability of decay with ‘grows to die’, much like many celebrity careers.

The nth Convention (second edition) release

By - David
Posted on December, 1, 2009December, 1, 2009

We are very pleased to announce the publication of the second book by ‘The nth Convention’ testing, among other things, just how different a second edition can be from the first. This book is another manifestation of the work ‘The nth Convention’ have been undertaking since a collaboration in Leipzig in 2005. Conversations held at

InterInterInterview

By - David
Posted on November, 24, 2009

David Helbich (second from left) recently gave an email interview here with Eirik from Oslo’s Ultima Festival about our plans and the shared interests that drive the InterInterInter collaboration.

David Barnes on David Cameron: Artist of the Avant-Garde

By - David Barnes
Posted on November, 17, 2009November, 17, 2009

Hearing David Cameron’s speech at the Conservative Party conference, I felt the urge to liberate the avant-garde, existentialist poem that lay behind the surface, a hidden subtext: I want to get straight To the point. We all know What I want to talk about. Don’t get me wrong, I’m ready for that But I tell

Poppycock

By - David
Posted on November, 9, 2009

The tale is told of a propaganda film where Stalin, wandering along a country lane enjoying the sunshine, comes across a peasant with a broken down tractor. Bizarrely he rolls up his sleeves, inspects the engine and soon it is up and running again. The intention of the propagandist is clear but, as Zizek has

Balka’s Black Box, Versions 1 and 2: Julie Rafalski

By - Julie Rafalski
Posted on October, 28, 2009October, 28, 2009

Recently I read about the latest commission for Tate’s Turbine Hall, an installation by Miroslaw Balka. Entitled ‘How It Is’, after a prose work by Samuel Beckett, the piece was described by one critic as “a darkness you struggle to measure, or rather a darkness that measures you.” Through the secondary sources of online photographs

an der ecke: by Eddie Farrell

By - Eddie
Posted on October, 12, 2009October, 12, 2009

It has been a month of corners. I suppose it began with looking down the Landwehrkanal from the corner of Luetzowufer and Klingelhoefer Strasse and realising for the first time just how close the Bauhaus Archive building is to to Potsdammer Platz. Potsdammer Platz, during the inter-war years was the busiest crossroads in Europe. However

How I Came to Live in a Book: Julie Rafalski

By - Julie Rafalski
Posted on October, 7, 2009

After recently coming across Novalis’ statement that the true reader must be an extension of the author, I began thinking about how readers become the final “producers” of the “screenplay” they’re reading and more specifically, about how the settings in novels and stories are constructed in the reader’s mind. While reading the first volume of