Review of “Blockbuster”, Tom Shone, SAU Blog, February 2005
Here is the original. Tom Shone’s big idea seemed more radical in 2005 than it does now – indeed now it is pretty much mainstream. The triumph of what is still…
Category: all art is quite useless
Further notes on the cultural hegemony of television
I have blogged before on television’s rise, rather than fall, in recent years, to become (seemingly) the dominant cultural force. I am always struck, when logging onto twitter, to see that the…
George Steiner on secondary culture in 1989
Each day, via journalism, via the journalistic-academic, the inherent value, the productive powers the savings embodied in a creative currency, this is the say in the vitality of the aesthetic,…
Crow Songs: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Lou Reed, Rossini
Blogging about rain songs, I was faced with an embarrassment of riches, and left out many worthy numbers. For no particular reason except I like them, I decided to blog this…
Le livre d’or de la science fiction: J G Ballard.
On my recent trip to Montmorillon I picked up for six euro a paperback Le Livre d’or de la science fiction: J G Ballard: As French Wikipedia puts it “Le Livre d’or…
Our Selves, Alone. Extract 4. Nthposition. 2010
“When society was organised along rational lines, it is surprising how many people were left behind.” That line is striking on re-reading this stories. I am not sure how well my…
Review of “Reading Pictures” by Alberto Manguel, nthposition 2003
Original link here Its almost become a cliché to cite Frank Zappa’s (alleged) quote that “writing about music is like dancing about architecture” when decrying the tendency of music…
Séamus Sweeney 