Entertainment and State Performance
In June 1979, one month after Margaret Thatcher won the general election that began her 11 year spell as Prime Minister; a new art magazine announced itself to the world, “There are still some events...
View ArticleEros: A Child of its Time
REPORT OBSCENE MAIL TO YOUR POSTMASTER read one postage cancellation stamp used by the American post office in the early sixties. Publisher-prankster Ralph Ginzburg, identifying an opportunity, applied...
View ArticleLexicon for Samuel Beckett’s Three Dialogues with George Duthuit
Preface It seems sensible to state here the rules that the author of this lexicon seems to have followed. In general it seems to be the case that he has taken a work by the writer Samuel Beckett,...
View ArticleS.M.S. Shit Must Stop; A Poem
This is part of a larger text which will soon be published in The Blue Notebook, an arts journal affiliated with the University of West England. * Now it is raining outside. Of course. Roy...
View ArticleSusan Wood: science fiction, feminism and literary criticism
Susan Joan Wood (1948-1980) was a Canadian critic, author, editor, and science fiction enthusiast, best known for her contributions to the sf fanzine community in the 1970s. Introduced to fandom while...
View ArticleJOCK Magazine: New York’s Curveball Pitch
Caps fell from heads. Knees dropped to the floor. At that moment, like a spark of sheer magnetism, the Mets clung to each other in disbelief. A snowballing mass of bobbing heads, jumping bodies and...
View ArticleSammy Baloji – Mining Katanga
Sammy Baloji, Untitled 12, 2006 Artist Sammy Baloji was born in 1978 in Lubumbashi, in The Democratic Republic of Congo’s mineral-rich Katanga province. With his photomontage work Mèmoire (2006),...
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