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The Art Life- Media and murder December 14, 2009Professor Joanna Mendelssohn was among those first contacted by members of the media in the immediate aftermath of the murder of Nick Waterlow and his daughter Chloe Heuston. In this article on the ethics of news reporting - originally commissioned and written for the Jesuit Communications Australia website Eureka Street - Mendelssohn describes her experienc […]
- Media and murder December 14, 2009
- Ballardian
- The 032c Interview: Simon Reynolds on Ballard, part 2 December 7, 2009Simon Reynolds is one of the most recognizable music critics around. His work reached a peak with the publication of Rip It Up and Start Again, a timely excavation of post-punk: Cabaret Voltaire, PiL, Magazine, and so on. What's more, J.G. Ballard was a thread throughout the book, as Reynolds charted the influence of JGB -- and especially his experiment […]
- The 032c Interview: Simon Reynolds on Ballard, part 2 December 7, 2009
- Cabinet
- A Dry Black Veil - Brian DillonBy the last decades of the nineteenth century, an obscuring perplex of ideas regarding dust hung above the inhabitants of the European city like overlapping clouds, variously threatening or inspiring with the weight of knowledge, quantity of filth, or degree of infection they contained. London, especially—having only lately escaped a mid-century chol […]
- A Dry Black Veil - Brian Dillon
- The Guardian Culture
- Beyond the stable December 15, 2009The Guardian challenged nine leading contemporary artists to create their own version of the traditional Christmas imageArray
- Sherlock Holmes premiere December 15, 2009Guy Ritchie joined stars Robert Downey Jr, Jude Law and Kelly Reilly for the unveiling of his reimagined detective. Xan Brooks follows the trailArray
- Last night's TV December 15, 2009 Sam Wollaston
- Beyond the stable December 15, 2009
- Infosthetics
- Life Without Buildings
- Subverting the Spectacle of Modern Times: Charlie Chaplin and the Situationists[Still from Modern Times] “The construction of situations begins beyond the ruins of the modern spectacle. It is easy to see how much the very principle of the spectacle – nonintervention – is linked to the alienation of the old world. Conversely, the most pertinent revolutionary experiments in culture have sought to break the spectators […]
- Subverting the Spectacle of Modern Times: Charlie Chaplin and the Situationists
- New Shelton Wet/Dry
- ‘The more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.’ –ShakespeareIs it our experiences or our genes that make us who we are? Studying twins has revealed unexpected, and often unnerving, insights into the nature versus nurture debate. Imagine receiving a phone call out of the blue. You find the voice on the other end eerily familiar as it tells you some life-changing news: you are, [...]
- ‘The more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.’ –Shakespeare
- Quiet Babylon
- Time StoppedTime stopped. photo credit: Steve Wampler Christine didn’t notice right away. She had her headphones on and so could not register the sudden silence. She did notice that the taps weren’t working but assumed that this was due to a problem with the plumbing. She was wearing her watch, so it continued to run, so, when [...]
- B-List Holy Grails (and a Contest!)Films like Tron have a lot to answer for … Children see these worlds, and the men and women they become try to build them. Will Wiles posting on Spillway For most of my life the videophone was telecom’s holy grail, & now? Just another of the Net’s many afterthoughts, & a B-teamer at that.. Julian Dibbell, on [...]
- Time Stopped
- Triple Canopy
- Thinking Through Images #1“A screaming comes across the sky.”
- Thinking Through Images #1
